Milanese Soup

Milanese soup is an ancient italian recipe that uses sausage, ham and bacon for flavor.

Put into a stewpan a piece of raw ham with one-half pound of chopped bacon and about one and one-half breakfast cupfuls of haricot beans. Wash a savoy cabbage and cut it into fine shreds and put it in with the above ingredients; then pour in three quarts or more of broth and place the stewpan over the fire. Cut up enough celery roots into small pieces to fill a breakfast cup, and after the broth has boiled for ten minutes, put them in with it. Then put in the stewpan one breakfast cupful of beans, an equal amount of green peas and asparagus heads, three-fourths of a pound of unwashed and unbroken rice, two smoked sausages, and one chopped tomato. Move the stewpan to the side of the fire, and allow the contents to simmer until the rice is done. When soft, mix in with the soup a fair quantity of grated Parmesan cheese. Take out the ham and sausage, cut the sausages into small pieces, put them into a soup tureen, pour the soup and vegetables over them and serve, send to the table at the same time a plateful of sippets of toast or croutons of fried bread.