Clear Game Soup

Ingredients

• Cut up a calf's foot
• bones and scraps of any cold game
• 2 ounces of chopped ham
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots
• parsley
• thyme
• a bayleaf
• a bit of mace
• a piece of celery
• 2 quarts of water

Method

1. 1

   Cook calf's foot, bones, scraps, ham, onion, carrots, parsley, thyme, bayleaf, mace, and celery in water for 3 hours.

2. 2

   Strain and clarify with egg white, add salt, pepper, sherry, hard-boiled egg, and lemon slices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CLEAR GAME SOUP. (Poland.) Cut up a calf's foot, add the bones and scraps and gravy of any cold game, duck, or rabbit, 2 ounces of chopped ham, i onion, 2 carrots, parsley, thyme, a bayleaf, a bit of mace, and a piece of celery. 12 With a Saucepan over the Sea Cook it with 2 quarts of water for 3 hours. Strain and clarify it with white of an egg, add salt, pepper, a glass of sherry, i hard-boiled egg, and i lemon, sliced. PIGEON BROTH. (Boulogne.) Lard and roast 4 fine pigeons, cut up the meat and put the bones and gravy in i quart of stock to cook. Chop the meat, with one onion, i pound of bread-crumbs soaked in milk, and i ounce of butter. Add to the rest and cook i hour. Press through a sieve, add i tablespoonful of port or sherry, salt, pepper, and some slices of toasted bread. LOBSTER MULLIGATAWNY. (England.) Cook 2 ounces of chopped ham, i carrot, i onion, i bayleaf, some parsley, i ounce of butter. Add two pounds of boiled lobster, cut into dice, I quart of veal stock, i spoonful of sherry, i ounce of flour mixed with i ounce of butter, a table- spoonful of curry powder, then cook yi hour. Add the yolks of 2 eggs and J^ cup of hot cream, press through a sieve, and serve with a dish of boiled rice. LENTEN BROTH (as made in the convents of France and Austria). Cook 2 pounds of flounders or any white fish, cut up, with I carrot, i onion, i turnip, 2 pieces of 13 With a Saucepan over the Sea celery, and a bunch of herbs, with i quart of water, for 2 hours. Take out the fish, remove skin and bones, and put the fish back again, add i pint of boiling milk, mixed with flour and butter, the yolk of an egg and juice of a lemon, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Press through a sieve and serve hot. FISH BROTH (as made in Sweden). Take the water in which a large fresh fish has been boiled, add any scraps or gravy, left over; re- duce by boiling to i quart. Strain it, add i leek, 6 potatoes, i carrot, cut up, a bayleaf, and some parsley. Simmer for ^ hour, add i pint of hot white stock, salt, pepper, a tablespoonful of sherry, and 12 oysters. Cook ten minutes more and serve. TURKEY SOUP. (Rouen.) Chop the dark meat of a turkey, add the gravy, bones, skin, and stuffing, i cup of bread-crumbs, an onion, some parsley, and 2 quarts of water. Cook 3 hours, add salt and pepper, nutmeg, J^ cup of boiling milk, mixed with a little butter and flour, and press through a sieve. TCHI. (Russian Soup.) Make i pound of sausage meat into small balls and fry them brown. Chop 2 large onion

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