Bean Soup

Ingredients

• Put the beans into a kettle
• enough water to cover
• a small piece of pork
• some thyme in a little bag
• hard boiled eggs
• a sliced lemon
• a little butter
• season with salt
• season with pepper
• a piece of fresh raw beef

Method

1. 1

   Put the beans into a kettle, cover with water, and boil.

2. 2

   Stir in a small piece of soda and let boil once; pour off the water, add fresh water with pork, and cook until well done.

3. 3

   Press the beans through a colander into the water they were boiled in.

4. 4

   Add thyme, boil hard eggs, quarter them, and add to the soup with lemon, butter, and seasonings.

5. 5

   A piece of fresh raw beef can be added for improvement.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 513. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

hard-boiled eggs smooth, moisten- ing to a paste with a few spoonfuls of soup ; mix with these a handful of fine bread crumbs and the chopped meat, and make it into small balls. When the soup has boiled in all two-and-a-half hours, if the chicken be reduced to shreds, strain the meat and bones ; season with salt, pepper, and a bunch of parsley ; drop in the balls of force-meat, and after boiling ten minutes incorporate the ingredients thoroughly ; add, a little at a time, one pint of rich milk thickened with a little flour ; boil up once and serve. BEEF SOUP. Put on your kettle by eight o'clock in the morning ; break up four or five pounds of a beef shank ; boil it slowly in water enough for your soup ; an hour before you wish to serve, cut up four or five potatoes, half-a-dozen small onions and add a tablespoonful of rice, and, if you wish, a little cabbage and celery ; boil slowly till the dinner is to be served ; remove the bones, and if you prefer it clear, strain off the vege- tables through a colander or sieve. Add salt and pepper to taste. It is a good and economical plan to put the roast beef bones and ends of beefsteak into your soup kettle for stock. Then you can use it for tomato or cabbage soup and save all the waste. BEAN SOUP. Put the beans into a kettle, pour on enough water to cover, and when they commence to boil stir in a small piece of soda and let boil up once ; pour off the water, put on Iresh with a small piece of pork, and let them cook until well done, then dip out the beans and press them through a 622 SOUPS. colander into the water in which they were boiled ; tie up some thyme in a little bag, put in the pot to simmer a few minutes ; boil hard a few eggs, quarter and put eggs into the soup, and a sliced lemon, a little butter, and season with salt and pepper. A piece of fresh raw beef

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