Neither meat nor soup,vegetables in house. Took:

8 potatoes

1 quart skimmed milk.

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.