Lentil Soup Recipe 4 ingredients

To prepare this Lentil Soup Recipe 4, first after soaking a pint of lentils in cold water for three or four hours, put them in a saucepan with 1 carrot, 1 onion, 2 ounces of salt pork cut in small pieces, a bunch of savory herbs with parsley. Season with a half tablespoon of salt and 6 peppercorns. Add the bones of any cold fowl or small game. Pour over 2 quarts of cold water and boil an hour, and rub through a sieve and return to the saucepan to get thoroughly heated. Cut some nice thin slices from the breast of the fowl or game used, put these in the soup tureen with a tablespoonful of butter, and pour the soup over them.

Serve with croutons or sippets of fried bread.