5 quarts boiling water 1 quart diced carrot 1 quart diced turnip 1 quart cooked Limas 1 pint diced onion 1 pint cut green pepper 1 quart diced celery

1 quart diced potato

1 pound bacon or salt pork

1/2 cup potato flour 6 quarts hot milk 5 or more tablespoons salt 1 teaspoon pepper

1/2 cup chopped parsley

Boil water, carrot, and turnip together forty-five minutes or more; add remaining vegetables, and boil twenty minutes longer. Cut bacon in small cubes, cook slowly until crisp, and remove cubes. Stir flour into cooled fat, add hot milk, and cook twenty to thirty minutes in double boiler. Combine mixtures, add bacon cubes and seasonings; sprinkle with parsley.