Chicken and Rice Soup
From Cookery for beginners, 1884
Ensure rice is boiled soft before adding.
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This recipe was extracted from Cookery for beginners (1884) by Marion Harland, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
A tough fowl can be converted into very delicious dishes by boiling it first for soup and mincing it, when cold, for croquettes. In boiling it, allow a quart of cold water for each pound of chicken, and set it where it will heat very slowly. DINNER DISHES. 89 If the fowl be quite old do not let it reach a boil under two hours, then boil very gently four hours longer. Throw in a tablespoonful of salt when you take it from the fire, turn chicken and liquor into a bowl and set in a cold place all night. Next day skim off the fat, strain the broth from the chicken, shaking the colander to do this well, and put aside the meat for cro- quettes or a scallop. Set three pints of the broth over the fire with a teaspoonful of chopped onion, season with salt arid pepper, and let it boil half an hour. Line a colander with a thick cloth, and strain the liquid, squeezing the cloth to get the flavor of the onion. Return the strained soup to the saucepan, with a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, scald in a farina kettle a cupful of milk, dropping into it a bit of soda the size of a pea. Stir into this when hot, a tablespoonful of 90 COOKERY FOR BEGINNERS. cornstarch wet up with cold milk. When it thickens scrape it out into a bowl in which you have two eggs whipped light. Beat all together well, and stir in, spoonful by spoonful, a cupful of the boiling soup. Draw the soup pot to one side of the range, stir in the contents of the bowl, and let it stand — but not boil — three minutes before pouring into the tureen. Ohioken and Sice Soup Is made as white chicken soup, but with the addition of four tablespoonfuls of rice, boiled soft, and added to the chicken liquor at the same time with the parsley. Then proceed as directed, with milk, eggs, etc. Tomato Soup. Add a quart of raw tomatoes, peeled and sliced, or a can of stewed tomatoes, and half a small onion to a quart of stock, and stew slowly one hour. DINNER DISHES. 91 Strain and rub through a colander and set again over the fire. Stir in a tablespoonful of butter cut up and rubbed into a tablespoonful of flour. A tablespoonful of cornstarch
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