A Simple White Soup

Ingredients

• 1 knuckle of veal
• chorissa
• 1 carrot
• 2 onions
• 3–4 turnips
• 1 blade mace
• 2–3 quarts water or weak broth
• salt
• 1 sprig parsley
• white pepper
• vermicelli

Instructions

1. Break a knuckle of veal and place it in a stewpan along with a piece of chorissa, a carrot, two onions, three or four turnips, and a blade of mace.
2. Pour over two or three quarts of water or weak broth, and season with salt, a sprig of parsley, and whole white pepper.
3. Boil until sufficiently cooked. Skim and strain the soup.
4. Thicken with pounded vermicelli before serving.