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Soup a la Crecy
Colonial soup

Time: 1-3/4 hour.

Seasonable all the year.

Sufficient for 8 persons.

Ingredients

4 carrots
2 sliced onions
1 cut lettuce
1 cut chervil
2 oz. butter
1 pint of lentils
the crumbs of 2 French rolls
half a teacupful of rice
2 quarts of medium stock

Directions

Put the vegetables with the butter in the stewpan
Let them simmer 5 minutes
Add the lentils and 1 pint of the stock
Stew gently for half an hou
Now fill it up with the remainder of the stock
Let it boil another hour
Put in the crumb of the rolls
When well soaked, rub all through a tammy
Have ready the rice boiled
Pour the soup over this, and serve

Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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