Free Mediterranean Diet

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ingredients:  Stock, butter, eggs, salt, crumb of bread, parsley,
nutmeg, flour, Parmesan.

Mix three and a half ounces of butter with two eggs and four ounces
of crumbs of bread soaked in stock, a little chopped parsley, salt,
and a pinch of nutmeg.  Reduce this and add two tablespoonsful of
flour and one of grated Parmesan.  Form this into little quenelles
and boil them in stock for a few minutes put them into a tureen and
pour a good clear soup over them.

Ingredients:  Clear soup, butter, flour, Parmesan, eggs.

Make a roux by frying two ounces of butter and two ounces of flour,
add an ounce of grated cheese and half a cup of good stock.  Mix up
well so as to form a paste, and then take it off the fire and add
the yolks of four eggs, mix again and form the again and form the
paste into little quenelles.  Boil these in a little soup, strain
off, put them into the tureen and pour a good clear soup over them.