Archive for June, 2006

Zuppa Regina di Riso (Queen’s Soup)

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Fowl stock, ground rice, milk, butter.

Put a tablespoonful of ground rice into a saucepan and gradually
add half a pint of milk, boil it gently for twelve minutes in a
bainmarie, but stir the whole time, so as to get it very smooth.
Just before serving add an ounce of butter, pass it through a
sieve, and mix it with good fowl stock.

Zuppa d’ Erbe (Lettuce Soup)

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Stock, sorrel, endive, lettuce, chervil, celery,
carrot, onion, French roll, Parmesan cheese.

Boil the following vegetables and herbs in very good stock for an
hour:  Two small bunches of sorrel, a bunch of endive, a lettuce, a
small bunch of chervil, a stick of celery, a carrot and an onion,
all well washed and cut up.  Then put some slices of toasted French
roll into a tureen and pour the above soup over them.  Serve with
grated Parmesan handed separately.

Soup alla Maria Pia

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  White stock, eggs, butter, peas, white beans, carrot,
onion, leeks, celery, cream croutons.

Soak one pound of white beans for twelve hours, then put them into
a stock pot with a little salt, butter, and water, add a carrot, an
onion, two leeks, and a stick of celery, and simmer until the
vegetables are well cooked; then take out all the fresh vegetables,
drain the beans and pass them through a sieve, but first dilute
them with good stock.  Put this puree into a stock pot with good
white stock, and when it has boiled keep it hot in a bain-marie
until you are about to serve; then mix the yolk of three eggs in a
cup of cream, and add this to the soup.  Pour the soup into a warm
tureen, add some boiled green peas, and serve with fried croutons
handed separately.

Soup alla Canavese

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:   White stock, butter, onions, carrot, celery, tomato,
cauliflower, fat bacon, parsley, sage, Parmesan, salt, pepper.

Chop up half an onion, half a carrot, half a stick of celery, a
small bit of fat bacon, and fry them in two ounces of butter.  Then
cover them with good white stock, boil for a few minutes, pass
through a sieve, and add two tablespoonsful of tomato puree.  Then
blanch half a cauliflower in salted water, let it get cold, drain
all the water out of it, and break it up into little bunches and
put them into a stock pot with the stock, a small leaf of dried
sage, crumbled up, and a little chopped parsley, and let it all
boil; add a pinch of grated cheese and some pepper.  Serve with
grated Parmesan handed separately.

Soup with Risotto

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Risotto (No. 189), eggs, bread crumbs, clear or brown
soup.

If you have some good risotto left, you can use it up by making it
into little balls the size of small nuts.  Egg and bread crumb and
fry them in butter; dry them and put them into a soup tureen with
hot soup.  The soup may be either clear or brown.

Neapolitan Soup

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Fowl, potato flour, eggs, Bechamel sauce, peas,
asparagus, spinach, clear soup.

Mix a quarter pound of forcemeat of fowl with a tablespoonful of
potato flour, a tablespoonful of Bechamel sauce (No. 3), and the
yolk of an egg; put this into a tube about the size round of an
ordinary macaroni; twenty minutes before serving squirt the
forcemeat into a saucepan with boiling stock, and nip off the
forcemeat as it comes through the pipe into pieces about an inch
and a half long.  Let it simmer, and add boiled peas and asparagus
tips.  If you like to have the fowl macaroni white and green, you
can colour half the forcemeat with a spoonful of spinach colouring.
Serve in a good clear soup.

Soup all’Imperatrice

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Breast of fowl, eggs, salt, pepper, ground rice,
nutmeg, clear stock.

Pound the breast of a fowl in a mortar, and add to it a teaspoonful
of ground rice, the yolk of an egg, salt, pepper, and a pinch of
nutmeg.  Pass this through a sieve, form quenelles with it, and
pour a good clear soup over them.

Crotopo Soup

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Clear soup, veal, ham, eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg,
rolls.

Pound half a pound of lean veal in a mortar, then add three ounces
of cooked ham with some fat in it, the yolk of an egg, salt,
pepper, and very little nutmeg.  Pass through a sieve, cut some
small French rolls into slices, spread them with the above mixture,
and colour them in the oven.  Then cut them in halves or quarters,
put them into a tureen, and just before serving pour a very good
clear soup over them.

Soup alla Modanese

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Stock, spinach, butter, salt, eggs, Parmesan,
nutmeg, croutons.

Wash one pound of spinach in five or six waters, then chop it very
fine and mix it with three ounces of butter, salt it and warm it
up.  Then let it get cold, pass through a hair sieve, and add two
eggs, a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan, and very little nutmeg.
Add this to some boiling stock in a copper saucepan, put on the
lid, and on the top put some hot coals so that the eggs may curdle
and help to thicken the soup.  Serve with fried croutons.

Soup alla Nazionale

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Clear soup, savoury custard.

Make a savoury custard and divide it into three parts, one to be
left white, another coloured red with tomato, and the third green
with spinach.  Put a layer of each in a buttered saucepan and cook
for about ten minutes, cut it into dice, so that you have the three
Italian colours (red, white, and green) together, then put the
custard into a soup tureen and pour a good clear soup over it.