A Quickly Made Turnip Soup

Ingredients

• 3 pounds young mild turnips
• 3 pints veal or mutton stock, or good broth
• 1 quart stock
• to taste salt
• to taste white pepper
• 1 lump of sugar
• 1 large white onion
• optional cream

Instructions

1. Pare and slice the turnips into three pints of veal or mutton stock or good broth.
2. Stew them gently for twenty-five to thirty minutes, or until they can be reduced quite to pulp.
3. Rub the whole through a sieve.
4. Add to it another quart of stock, a seasoning of salt and white pepper, and one lump of sugar.
5. Give it two or three minutes' boil.
6. Skim and serve it.