Minestra alla Casalinga
Ingredients: Onions, celery, carrots, butter, salt, stock,
tomatoes, mushrooms.
Cut up an onion, a stick of celery, and a carrot; fry them in
butter and salt; add a few bits of cooked ham and veal cut up, two
mushrooms, and the pulp of a tomato. Cook for a quarter of an
hour, and add a little stock occasionally to keep it moist. Pass
through a sieve, and use for seasoning minestre, macaroni, rice,
&c. It should be added when the dish is nearly cooked.