Brown half a pound of butter in a saucepan, and stew
it for a quarter of an hour with the following ingredients,
all washed clean and chopped small :-Four cabbage-lettuces
two handfuls of spinach, the same of chervil, one handful
of white beet-leaves, and one of sorrel, three carrots scraped
down, some pepper and salt ; add five pints of boiling -water
and a large slice of the crumb of bread cut thin and dried
before the fire. Stew gently for two o hours, and a little
before serving thicken with the beaten yolks of three eggs,
and half a pint of cream or good milk. A pint of green peas
and the tops of asparagus may be added.
 
 

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