From:
The Thorough Good Cook
Soups: 28. Yet Another Soup Maigre
Brown half a pound of
butter in a
saucepan, and stew it for a quarter of an
hour with the following
ingredients, all washed clean and chopped small; Four
cabbage-
lettuces, two handfuls of
spinach, the same of
chervil, one handful of white
beet-leaves, and one of
sorrel, three
carrots scraped down, some
pepper and
salt; add five pints of boiling water and a large slice of the crumb of bread cut thin and dried before the fire. Stew gently for two hours. A little before serving thicken with the beaten yolks of three eggs, and half a pint of
cream or good milk. A pint of green
peas and the tops of
asparagus may be added.