More soup

A cold and now overcast day suggested soup.

Boil up 7oz orange lentils (Ontarian best) in 2l of water. Add about half a pound of chopped onion. Simmer for about 40 minutes.

Slice half a tenderloin into slices maybe 2cm by 2cm by 0.5cm and add them. Simmer for a further 20 minutes.

Add two nests of Sharwood's soft noodles and a quarter of a white cabbage, slivered. I find it best to cut the core out and slice that separately. Simmer for a further 5 minutes.

Add half a dozen button mushrooms, stalks removed and chopped, halved. Simmer for the final 2 minutes.

Served by itself, just the thing for a winter lunch.

Followed up, later in the day, by the first cheese scones of the season, made, on this occasion by BH. One more simple and reliable recipe only rarely found in use in the commercial sector, probably because the scones are much the best when eaten not long out of the oven. Don't stand that well. See reference 2 for what is probably an oblique reference to the last scones of the last season.

PS: Sharwood's medium egg noodles are useful things. Maybe the closest we come in the regular way of things to ready meals. See, for example, reference 1.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/nonsuch-park.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/kitchen-life.html.