Now add the little pieces cut up, and let the whole simmer gently, and serve fried or toasted bread with the soup.
N.B .-- SPINACH EXTRACT .-- It is very important in making all green vegetable soups that they should be of a green colour, such as the one above mentioned--green-pea soup, &c., and that we get a _good_ colour, and this is only to be obtained by means of spinach extract.

Spinach extract can be made at home, but it will be found to be far more economical to have a small bottle of green vegetable colouring always in the house.

These bottles can be obtained from all grocers at the cost of about tenpence or one shilling each.

Such a very small quantity goes such a long way that one bottle would probably last a family of six persons twelve months.

As we have said, it can be made at home, but the process, though not difficult, is troublesome.