Clear Soup with Dumplings

Ingredients:

2 large English onions
1 teaspoonful of herbs
½ teaspoonful of nutmeg
1 carrot
1 turnip
pepper and salt to taste
1 oz. of butter
3 pints of water

How to cook Clear Soup with Dumplings:

• Chop up finely the onions and fry them brown in the butter in the saucepan in which the soup is to be made; add the water.
• Cut up in thin slices the carrot and turnip, add these, with the herbs, nutmeg, and seasoning to the soup. Let it boil for I hour, drain the liquid, return it to the saucepan, and when boiling add the dumplings.

How to make the dumplings:

½ pint of clear soup
4 eggs
a little nutmeg
pepper and salt to taste.

• Beat the eggs well, mix them with the soup, and season the mixture with nutmeg, pepper, and salt.
• Pour it into a buttered jug; set it in a pan with boiling water, and let the mixture thicken. Then cut off little lumps with a spoon, and throw these into the soup and boil up before serving.

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