Minestra of Semolina

October 23rd, 2006

Ingredients:  Stock, semolina, Parmesan.

Put as much stock as you require into a saucepan, and when it
begins to boil add semolina very gradually, and stir to keep it
from getting lumpy Cook it until the semolina is soft, and serve
with grated Parmesan handed separately.  To one quart of soup use
three ounces of semolina. Free Mediterranean Diet

Zuppa d’ Erbe (Lettuce Soup)

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 Lombarda

June 21st, 2006

Ingredients:  Clear soup, fowl forcemeat, Bechamel (No. 3), peas,
lobster butter, eggs, asparagus.

Make a firm forcemeat of fowl and divide it into three parts, to
the first add two spoonsful of cream Bechamel, to the second four
spoonsful of puree of green peas, to the third two spoonsful of
lobster butter and the yolk of an egg; thus you will have the
Italian colours, red, white, and green.  Butter a pie dish and make
little quenelles of the forcemeat.  Just before serving boil them
for four minutes in boiling stock, take them out carefully and put
them in a warm soup tureen with two spoonsful of cooked green peas
and pour a very fresh clear soup over them.  Hand little croutons
fried in lobster butter separately.