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Handwritten notebook page 4, showing Vichyssoise (Cold Potato Soup)
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Vichyssoise (Cold Potato Soup)

Soup

Ingredients

3onions, rough cut
1-2 lbham scraps
a littlebutter
10 lbpotatoes, peeled, raw
to coverchicken stock
as neededcream
to tasteWorcestershire sauce
to tastechopped chives
to tastesalt and pepper

Method

  1. Sauté onions and ham scraps in a little butter.
  2. Add potatoes and chicken stock to cover; cook until done.
  3. Put through a china cap; strain the liquid.
  4. Refrigerate until thick.
  5. Thin with cream; season with Worcestershire, chopped chives, salt and pepper.
As written in 1982
Vichyssoise (cold potato soup)
3 onions (rough)
1-2 lbs Ham scraps (sautaed in little butter)
10 lbs peeled raw potatos -
chicken stock to cover potatos.
cook till done.
When done put through (china cap)
Strain liquid
refrig. till thick
thin with cream, worcestor, chopped
chives, s/p taste.
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