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Celery Soup II

A historical lunch recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 3 stalks Celery
  • 3 cups Milk
  • 1 slice Onion
  • 3 tablespoons Butter
  • 3 tablespoons Flour
  • As needed Salt and Pepper
  • 1 cup Cream

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Break celery in one-inch pieces, and pound in a mortar. Cook in double boiler with onion and milk twenty minutes. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Season with salt and pepper, add cream, strain into tureen, and serve at once.

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Where this recipe comes from

Celery Soup II, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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