This section is from the book "Cooking Vegetables. Practical American Cookery", by Jules Arthur Harder. Also available from Amazon: The Physiology Of Taste.
Salep or Saloop. Salep.
No. 1378. - Salep is a small, oval, irregular or oblong tuber of a yellowish color, a feeble odor and a mild mucilaginous taste. It is one of the numerous species of the genus Orchis. It is prepared principally in the Levant and in Germany, and is highly nutritious, being used in the same manner as sago, tapioca and other fecula for invalids.
No. 1379. - Put a pint of chicken or veal broth in a saucepan, and when it boils add in slowly a teaspoonful of the Salep while stirring it briskly. Let it boil about twenty minutes, season it lightly and then serve it.
 
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