White Turnip Soup

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Title: WHITE TURNIP SOUP
Categories: Soups, Vegetables
Yield: 6 servings

4 Medium-sized white turnips
1 lg Onion
3 tb Butter
Salt and pepper
3 sl Bread
2 Egg yolks
1/2 c Cream

Info: from The Old Farmer's Almanac Colonial Cookbook

Parsley

Peel, slice and coarsely chop the vegetables and cook
them slowly in the butter for 5 minutes. Add 6 cups
of boiling water, salt and pepper, and bread, which
you have first dried out in a slow oven and crumbled.
Simmer the soup for a half hour and puree' it. Reheat
over low heat. Stir in the egg yolks beaten well with
the cream. Serve at once, garnished with finely
minced parsley.

Posted by Perry Lowell. Courtesy of Fred Peters.

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