Vegetables, cut like needles, and fried to a gold colour in a little butter, powdered with sugar; drain, and stew gently till soft, in a litlte second stock; drain again, and add to the soup quite free from grease to warm up.
Do not add the stock in which they are stewed to the soup.
Lettuce peas and asparagus tips should be simply boiled and drained before adding to soup.