Carrot
Soup
4 good-sized
carrots
1 small head of celery
1 fair-sized onion
1 turnip
3 oz of breadcrumbs
1-1/2 oz of butter
1 blade of mace
1 1/2 qts water
Pepper and salt to taste
Scrape and wash
the vegetables, and cut them up small; set them over the fire with
the water, butter, bread, and mace. Let all boil together, until
the vegetables are quite tender, and then rub them through a sieve.
Return the mixture
to the saucepan, season with pepper and salt, and if too thick add
water to the soup, which should be as thick as cream, boil the soup
up, and serve.