The Boston cooking-school cook book

Soup 1 can kornlet 1 pint cold water 1 quart milk, scalded 4 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon chopped onion 4 tablespoons flour 1½ teaspoons salt Few grains pepper Cook kornlet in cold water twenty minutes; rub through a sieve, and add milk. Fry butter and onion three minutes; remove onion, add flour, salt, and pepper, and stir into boiling soup. Potato Soup 3 potatoes 1 quart milk 2 slices onion 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1½ teaspoons salt ¼ teaspoon celery salt ⅛ teaspoon pepper Few grains cayenne 1 teaspoon chopped parsley Cook potatoes in boiling salted water; when soft, rub through a strainer. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and add milk slowly to potatoes. Melt half the butter, add dry ingredients, stir until well mixed, then stir into boiling soup; cook one minute, strain, add remaining butter, and sprinkle with parsley. Appledore Soup Make same as Potato Soup, and add, just before serving, three tablespoons tomato catsup. Swiss Potato Soup 4 small potatoes 1 large flat white turnip 3 cups boiling water 1 quart scalded milk ½ onion 4 tablespoons butter ⅓ cup flour 1½ teaspoons salt ⅛ teaspoon pepper Wash, pare, and cut potatoes in halves. Wash, pare, and cut turnips in one-quarter inch slices. Parboil together ten minutes, drain, add onion cut in slices, and three cups boiling water. Cook until vegetables are soft; drain, reserving the water to add to vegetables after rubbing them through a sieve. Add milk, reheat, and bind with butter and flour cooked together. Season with salt and pepper. Leek and Potato Soup 1 bunch leeks 1 cup celery 2½ tablespoons butter 1 quart milk 2½ cups potatoes 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour Salt and pepper Cayenne Cut leeks and celery in very thin slices crosswise and cook in two and one-half tablespoons butter, stirring constantly, ten minutes. Add milk, and cook in double boiler forty minutes. Cut potatoes in slices and cut slices in small pieces; then cook in boiling salted water ten minutes. Melt two tablespoons butter, add flour, milk with vegetables and potatoes. Cook until potatoes