clear soup with dumplings

Today vegetarian recipes :

clear soup (with dumplings).
2 large english onions, 1 teaspoonful of herbs, ½ teaspoonful of nutmeg, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, pepper and salt to taste, 1 oz. of 2 butter, 3 pints of water. chop up finely the onions and fry them brown in the butter in the saucepan in which the soup is to be made; add the water. cut up in thin slices the carrot and turnip, add these, with the herbs, nutmeg, and seasoning
to the soup. let it boil for i hour, drain the liquid, return it to the saucepan, and when boiling add the dumplings prepared as follows: ½ pint of clear soup, 4 eggs, a little nutmeg, pepper and salt to taste. beat the eggs well, mix them with the soup, and season the mixture with nutmeg,
pepper, and salt. pour it into a buttered jug; set it in a pan with boiling water, and let the mixture thicken. then cut off little lumps with a spoon, and throw these into the soup and boil up before serving.