Vegetable And Herb Soup With Bread Crumbs

Ingredients

• 2 heads green cabbage
• 2 heads cos lettuce
• 1 head hard cabbage
• 6 onions
• 1 large carrot
• 2 turnips
• 3 heads celery
• Fresh tarragon, chervil, parsley, and thyme, chopped
• 1/4 lb butter
• Flour
• 3 quarts boiling water
• Stale bread crumbs

Method

1. 1 Chop the cabbages, lettuces, onions, carrot, turnips, and celery finely. Chop the herbs.
2. 2 Fry the flour in the butter until golden.
3. 3 Add the vegetables and herbs to the butter mixture, then pour in the boiling water.
4. 4 Boil for two hours, stirring well occasionally.
5. 5 Before serving, stir in stale bread crumbs made from the upper part of a loaf.