Hot Vegetable Punch For Eight - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cans condensed bouillon
water
5 c. tomato juice
6 or 8 pieces of cut celery
2 small onions, sliced
bay leaf
7 or 8 whole black peppers
carrot slices
parsley
1/4 lemon

Preparation

Simmer condensed bouillon, an equal amount of water, tomato juice with celery, onions, bay leaf and black peppers.
Toss in a few carrot slices and any sprigs of parsley you happen to have. When the vegetables have added their flavor to the brew, squeeze 1/4 of lemon into the pot.
Strain hot punch into punch bowl.
Set the garnishes afloat.