This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Neither meat nor soup,vegetables in house. Took:
1 quart water
1/2 cup butter
Carrots and onions from garden, very small, about 1/2 dozen
Salt, pepper, slight grating of nutmeg.
Use two saucepans. Boil the potatoes in salted water in one; the vegetables, cut or chopped, in water in the other. When the potatoes are well done drain them, mash with the milk and butter and stir through a seive or strainer into the other saucepan containing the vegetables The soup should be of the consistency and appearance of cream with the minced vegetables showing plainly. A little flour thickening may be needed or more milk.
 
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