Cock a Leekie Soup

Ingredients

• a chicken
• two quaiis of water
• salt
• pepper
• an onion stuck with two cloves
• a quart of veal stock
• the white part of six leeks
• one inch and a half long

Method

1. 1

   Boil a chicken in two quarts of water with salt, pepper, and an onion for forty minutes.

2. 2

   Strain the broth into a stewpan, add veal stock and boil.

3. 3

   Cut leeks, blanch, drain, and add to the broth.

4. 4

   Cut chicken meat into small pieces, add to leeks, simmer for ten minutes, season, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COCK A LEEKIE SOUP. Boil a chicken in two quaiis of water, with salt, pepper, and an onion stuck with two cloves, for forty minutes, taking care to skim off the scum at the proper time ; then strain the bix>th through a cloth into a stewpan ; add a quart of veal stock and boil. Meanwhile cut the white part of six leeks one inch and a half long

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