Onion Soup

I made onion soup
because that's all we had in the house;
onions
and a bit of milk,
some butter, salt, pepper
a bag of carrots.
I remembered a recipe from one of those
colonial diary books for little girls
I still had the book
I scrounged in the box of forgotten tales
and fished it out
I chopped the onions
three yellow, one magenta
four carrots, orange, diced
a chunk of butter, and plenty of salt
enough pepper to give it flavor
some oil and bacon fat
I put it all in the bubbling milk
until they all became soft
that's for supper
scroungings, leftovers
for us, the poor young couple
I hope it tastes all right!


I also made some corn fritters, they taste divine.