Free Recipe French Potato Soup (Potage Parmentier)

Recipe Type: Free Recipes

Recipe Preparation: cook

Cooking Ingredients for French Potato Soup (Potage Parmentier) Recipe

1 lb Potatoes; peeled and cut up
2 Leeks; peeled down to the
– good and well-washed and
-cut thinly
2 md To large onions; peeled and
-sliced thinly
1 lg Carrot; washed and well
-scraped, and sliced thinly
1 Stalk of celery; washed and
-sliced thinly
1 Sprig of parsley; washed and
-chopped
2-1/2 c Water
1 tb Salt
1 ts Ground black pepper
1/4 c Butter (I use 1/2 !) (up to
-1/2)
1/2 c Heavy cream
Chopped Chives

French Potato Soup (Potage Parmentier) Preparation

I rarely post a recipe that is not my own, but this one comes from an aged Women”s Day Encyclopadia of Cookery. It will stick to your ribs and dispel the cold of winter, even in frigid New York! (Doubtless you know that Parmentier was the French agronomist who popularized the potato in France.) Now, one more time, when I say potatoes, I mean real potatoes such as the Maine kennebec or the Irish cobbler, and not those russet things. The following will feed six. Double it if you feed a tribe. Moreover, you will note that this is not for you if you are on a low fat diet! *grin* In a large sauce pan, add the water and all of the vegetables except the chives. Cover and cook over low heat for about two hours. Then add the salt and pepper. Drain the vegetables and KEEP the liquid! Process the vegetables in either a food mill or a blender. Return them to the liquid. Add the butter and the cream. Reheat and taste…you may wish to add a bit more salt… Serve sprinkled with the chives. To change that masterpiece into a Watercress Soup (Potage au Cresson), hold the chives. Instead finely chop a bunch of watercress and add it at the same time that you add the butter and cream. Serve with the top sprinkled with additional finely chopped watercress. Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #306 by Claude V. Hall <cvhall@usit.net> on Nov 23, 1997

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Recipe Serves: 1

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