Cold Asparagus soup

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This is a healthy and tasty soup.

Ingredients

• Small broiled bone
• 1 1/2 pint (850 ml) of peas
• water
• 1 root of celery
• Small bunch of sweet herbs
• 1 large onion
• Cayenne pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• spinach juice
• asparagus, boiled and cut into small pieces

Procedure

1. Put a small broiled bone to the peas, and water in proportion, the celery, the herbs, and onion.
2. Add cayenne pepper and salt to taste; boil it briskly for five hours.
3. Strain and pulp it, then add the spinach juice, and asparagus.

Notes and Tips

• A teaspoonful of walnut soy, and a teaspoonful of mushroom catsup, answers as well as the bone.

This page incorporates text from the public domain 1881 Household Cyclopedia.