Soup alla Maria Pia
Soup alla Maria Pia
Ingredients: White stock, eggs, butter, peas, white beans, carrot,
onion, leeks, celery, cream croutons.
Soak one pound of white beans for twelve hours, then put them into
a stock pot with a little salt, butter, and water, add a carrot, an
onion, two leeks, and a stick of celery, and simmer until the
vegetables are well cooked; then take out all the fresh vegetables,
drain the beans and pass them through a sieve, but first dilute
them with good stock. Put this puree into a stock pot with good
white stock, and when it has boiled keep it hot in-a bain- marie
until you are about to serve; then mix the yolk of three eggs in a
cup of cream, and add this to the soup. Pour the soup into a warm
tureen, add some boiled green peas, and serve with fried croutons
handed separately.
See also: Wikipedia Cookbook.
Source: The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two
Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes from a project that puts
out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very*
old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century.
Update as necessary.