Lettuce Soup Recipe

Ingredients for Lettuce Soup Recipe

• 12 lettuce hearts
• Dash salt and pepper
• 2 1/2 pint chicken consomme
• 2 1/2 pint veal broth
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• A few sprigs of parsley
• 1 clove
• 1 blade of mace
• 1 bay leaf
• A little thyme

1. Strain the stock in which they were boiled, add 3 pints more of boiling broth and pour it over the lettuce, and serve with nicely browned pieces of toast on the top.

Instructions

1. Wash lettuce thoroughly and drain the water. Cut the lettuce down the centers, leaving the stems whole.
2. Dash them with salt and pepper.
3. Put them in a saucepan with a pint of chicken consomme and the same of veal broth; add onion, carrot, parsley, clove, mace, bay leaf, and thyme.
4. Put a sheet of buttered paper over the top of the saucepan and put the lid on tightly; boil gently two hours.
5. Take out the lettuce, drain on a towel, cut them in two, and put them in the soup tureen, where they will keep hot.
6. Strain the stock in which they were boiled, add 3 pints more of boiling broth and pour it over the lettuce, and serve with nicely browned pieces of toast on the top.

.