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Lunch

Cream of Cauliflower Soup

A turn-of-the-century lunch recipe featuring hot white stock ii or iii, with the original instructions and source page intact.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 4 cups hot White Stock II or III
  • 1 cauliflower
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 slice onion
  • 1 stalk celery, cut in inch pieces
  • ½ bay leaf
  • ¼ cup flour
  • 2 cups milk
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Soak cauliflower, head down, one hour in cold water to cover; cook in boiling salted water twenty minutes. Reserve one-half flowerets, and rub remaining cauliflower through sieve. Cook onion, celery, and bay leaf in butter five minutes. Remove bay leaf, then add flour, and stir into hot stock; add cauliflower and milk. Season with salt and pepper; then strain, add flowerets, and reheat.

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