Cream of Vegetable Soup

Works well with Sweetcorn, or Sweetcorn and Carrot, or Parsnip, or Mushroom, or….well damn near everything.

Ingredients

600 ml / 1 Pint Milk
300 ml / ½ Pint Water
1 Large Onion
1 Medium Potato
2 stock cubes
450g / 1 pound Vegetables
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
25g / 1 oz butter
Some chopped parsley

Instructions

Peel / quarter Potato and Onion
Put All Ingredients in pan
Bring to boil
Skim off scum
Simmer for 20 mins
Liquidise (and sieve if desired)
Garnish with parsley

NB May need thinning with water or milk, especially with root vegetables.

Tastes much MUCH better than it looks.

Christmas Eve - Just tried this with some left-over Roasted Beetroot. Yup. Delicious.

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