History-at-home | Green Soup from 1789

Name: History-at-home | Green Soup from 1789
Ingredients: About 5-8 stalks of green asparagus; 2 good handfuls of lamb's lettuce; A small bunch of sorrel, nettles, wild garlic, garlic mustard, chives and goutweed; 1-2 litres of meat or vegetable broth; 2 tablespoons of meat stock fat or vegetable oil; 3-4 egg yolks; 3-4 tablespoons of sweet cream; Salt; Good pinch of mace, ground; If necessary, white bread cubes

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Spring time is herb time. In historical cookbooks one often comes across dishes in which herbs are used. Be it in the form of a green sauce, a salad, as green dumplings or, as here, as a green soup....

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Ingredients

About 5-8 stalks of green asparagus
2 good handfuls of lamb's lettuce
A small bunch of sorrel, nettles, wild garlic, garlic mustard, chives and goutweed
1-2 litres of meat or vegetable broth
2 tablespoons of meat stock fat or vegetable oil
3-4 egg yolks
3-4 tablespoons of sweet cream
Salt
Good pinch of mace, ground
If necessary, white bread cubes