bread soup

Today vegetarian recipes :

bread soup.
½ lb. of stale crusts of allinson wholemeal bread, 4 onions, 2 turnips, 1 stick of celery, 1 oz. of butter, ½ oz. of finely chopped parsley, 8 pints of water, ½ pint of milk. soak the crusts in the water for 2 hours before they are put over the fire. cut up into small dice the vegetables; add them to the bread with the butter and pepper and salt to taste. allow all to simmer gently for 1 hour, then rub the soup through a sieve, return it to the saucepan, add the milk and parsley, and, if the flavour is liked, a little grated nutmeg; boil the soup up and serve at once.