Calf's Head Soup

Ingredients

• the calf's head
• the tongue
• 1 carrot
• 3 large onions
• 1 sprig of soup celery
• 1 small white turnip
• a large bouquet
• a little salt
• Y, cupful flour
• ly^ ounce of butter
• 12 fine-cut canned mushrooms
• V, cupful sherry
• a little Cayenne pepper
• 1 pint of the calf's-head meat
• 18 chicken-forcemeat balls

Method

1. 1

   Reduce the broth to a glaze, add the calf's head and tongue, fill with cold water, and boil.

2. 2

   Add carrot, onions, celery, turnip, bouquet, and salt.

3. 3

   Boil gently until the head is done.

4. 4

   Remove the head, cool, cut into pieces, and add to the soup.

5. 5

   Strain the broth, remove fat, return 2 quarts to the fire.

6. 6

   Melt butter, add flour, fry till brown, then add to soup.

7. 7

   Add mushrooms, boil 20 minutes, remove fat.

8. 8

   Add sherry, pepper, calf's head meat, and boil 10 minutes.

9. 9

   Place forcemeat balls in the tureen and pour soup over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

the calf's head, also the tongue ; fill the kettle with cold water, and as soon as it boils add 1 carrot, 3 large onions, 1 sprig of soup celery, 1 small white turnip, a large bouquet, and a little salt ; let this boil gently until the calf's head is done ; then take the head out and place it on a dish to cool ; afterward to be cut into square pieces and added to the soup ; strain the broth through a napkin, remove all the fat, and return 2 quarts of the broth to the fire again. Melt ly^ ounce of bntter in a saucepan, add Y, cupful flour, stir and fry till light brown ; then add it to the soup ; add 12 fine-cut canned mush- rooms ; boil gently 20 minutes, removing all the fat that arises. Then add V, cupful sherry, a little Cayenne pepper, 1 pint of the oalTs-head meat cut into Vs-inch-sized pieces, and if necessary more salt, and boil gently 10 minutes. Put 18 chicken-forcemeat balls

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