This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Place in a saucepan one pint of puree of chestnuts (No. 131), moisten it with one pint of white broth (No. 99) and a glassful of Madeira wine; boil for thirty minutes, then put in a quarter of a carrot, the same of turnip cut with a tin tube, a table-spoonful of asparagus-tops, six Brussels sprouts, and a piece of cut-up cauliflower the size of an egg. Boil all together for fifteen minutes, and serve after seasoning with half a tablespoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of pepper.
 
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