Potatoe Soup

Ingredients

• 1 pound potatoes, fine
• 2 quarts water
• 1 pound meat trimmings
• 1 cup rice
• sweet herbs
• 1 head celery
• white pepper
• salt
• thickening

Instructions

1. Grate a pound of fine potatoes in two quarts of water.
2. Add to it the trimmings of any meat, amounting to about a pound in quantity, a cup of rice, a few sweet herbs, and a head of celery.
3. Stew well till the liquor is considerably reduced, then strain it through a sieve.
4. If, when strained, it is too thin and watery, add a little thickening.
5. It should be flavoured only with white pepper and salt.