Caper Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 pints of water
• 1 pint of milk
• 1 large tablespoonful of capers
• 1/2 lemon
• 2 eggs
• 1-1/2 oz. of fine wheatmeal
• 1/2 oz. of butter, 
• Pepper and salt to taste. 

Methods:

• Boil the milk and water and butter, with seasoning to taste; thicken it with the wheatmeal rubbed smooth with a little milk.
• Chop up the capers, add them and let the soup cook gently for 10 minutes.
• Take it off the fire, beat up the eggs and add them carefully, that they may not curdle.
• At the last add the juice of the half lemon, re-heat the soup without allowing it to boil, and serve.