Just for Two Soup Recipes
Here’s some great soup recipes to warm you up on a cold winter’s day… and they’re sized just right for 2 people!
BEAN SOUP
Ingredients
1 cup of beans
1 quart of water
ham bone
1 pint of milk
1/2 teaspoonful of butter
Directions
Boil the beans fifteen minutes. Boil with the ham bone three hours. Rub through a gravy strainer, add hot milk until it is of the proper consistency, and add the butter. Serve at once.
CLAM-CELERY SOUP
Ingredients
10 clams chopped
1 pint water
1 pint milk
1 tablespoonful butter
yolks of two eggs beaten
1/2 single head of celery
chopped fine
1 very small onion
chopped fine
salt and pepper to taste.
Directions
Rub butter and flour together, thickening the hot water with it. When cooked smooth, add celery and on- ion, cooking twenty minutes. If clams are fresh, add them, too, but if canned, only heat through. Just before serving, add milk, which has been heating in another dish, the yolks of eggs and seasoning, not allowing to cook.
WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP
Ingredients
1 small turnip (Scrape and slice)
1 carrot
1 small onion peeled
3 stalks of celery
2 leeks
2 stalks of parsley, minced
1 clove
salt and pepper
grated nutmeg
3 pints boiling water
Directions
Fry all with a little butter until a light yellow; add celery and leeks, cut into small pieces; stir and fry all for five minutes; when fried, parsley, clove, salt and pepper and a little grated nutmeg; cover with boiling water, and simmer for one hour. Take off the scum, strain and serve.
