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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Queen’s Soup.— Wash the fowl in warm water; stew for an hour with sufficient strong veal broth to cover the meat, and a bunch of parsley. Take out the fowl and soak bread- crumb in the liquor; cut the meat off; take away the skin, and pound the flesh in a mortar, adding the soaked crumb and the yolks of five hard-boiled eggs; rub this through a coarse sieve or tamis, and put into it a quart of cream that has been previously boiled. Rice Soup. — Wash well 4 ozs. of rice, and boil it in two quarts of veal stock till tender ; drain it, and put the stock with half the rice back into thestewpan; rub the rest through a fine sieve, then stir it into the soup and let it boil up. Beat the yolks of three eggs with half a pint of cream, take the soup off the fire for two min- utes, then add the eggs and cream gradually, and stir the soup unceas- ingly for three or four minutes until it is thoroughly hot ; but it must not boil again or the eggs will curdle. Time, two hours. Roux, or Thickening for Soups. See Gravies. Russian Soup. — The cabbage is to be cut in shreds an inch long. One onion (a Spanish onion preferred), to be cut in shreds, and a few fine herbs. Fry in butter, but do not brown; drain, and add to the soup, with one table - spoonful of flour. Have ready small balls of beef sau- sage, made of 2 ozs. of beef chopped very small, 2 ozs. of suet chopped very small, one egg, pepper and salt. Fry, and place in the soup, with a squeeze of lemon, just before serving up. Sago Soup. — Wash 6 ozs. of sago, and add it gradually to two quarts of well- flavored stock. Let it simmer gently till the sago is quite clear, and 371 J Sago Soup SOUPS Squirrel Soup put in further seasoning if necessary. Before serving the soup mix with it either the strained juice of a lemon and a glass of light wine, or the yolks of two eggs beaten up with a little creamSago Soup. Sago Soup (without meat). — First wash a teacupful of sago and then boil it for an hour in a quart of water, with a pinch of salt, and a little cinnamon or lemon -rind for flavoring. By this time the water should be reduced one -half. Fill up the lacking half with red wine ; add some slices of lemon and 5 ozs. of sugar for sweetening. Let the whole come to a boil once, and when ready to serve sprinkle the surface with powdered cinnamon or nut- megSago Soup (without meat), whichever you prefer. Scotch Broth. — Boil x/z lb. of barley slowly in three pints of stock. When the barley is thoroughly cooked, rub the whole through a sieve. Return to fire, and add a little cooked barley, half a pint of milk, 2 ozs. of butter, chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and heat. Beat up the yolks of three eggs and add them, together with a teaspoonful of castor sugar, four to six table -spoonfuls of creScotch Brotham. Mix well together, and when warm enough dish. When in tureen add a few lumps of butter and a little more cream.