Folio 1, Page 18a, Verso

Folio 1, Page 18a, Verso

Recipe for Carrot Soup

Carrot Soup
Take 8 or 9 of the darkest & coloure’d Carrots,
cut in large slices, put
to them 3 Quarts of good broth/made
savoury first with Celery, Onion,
Turnip, & c / let it boil enough till the
carrots are tender enough to rub
through a tammy Cloth,
when they are all rubbe’d through, set it again on the
fire to boil gently for about
20 minutes: whic┌h┐will make it smooth & a proper thickness
& whilst boiling add Chyan
pepper to your taste- have ready some scoope’d Carrot and Turnip
ready boile’d & put them,
in just before they go into the Tureen-
It is better made the day before

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Gillespie Family

1782 to 1808

Gillespie Family

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Carrot Soup
Take 8 or 9 of the darkest & colour[e]’d Carrots, cut in large slices, put to them 32 Qts of good broth/ made savoury first with Celery, Onion, Turnip, &c / let it boil enough till the carrots are tender enough to rub through a tammy Cloth, when they are all rubb[e]’d through, set it again on the fire to boil gently for about 20 minutes: so  w[ic]h will make it smooth & a proper thickness & whilst boiling add Chyan pepper to your taste- have ready some scoop[e]’d Carrot and Turnip ready boil[e]’d & put them, in just before they go into the Tureen-
It is better made the day before

A tammy cloth is a coarse cloth of cotton and wool. While it as still used as a word today it is probably more familiar as the cloth you can buy as an embroidery ground. Chyan Pepper may be Cayenne pepper, but it could be a redundant name that has disappeared.

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