Cock-a-Leekie Soup

Ingredients

• a young fowl
• two quarts of white stock
• two bunches of fine leeks
• half a pound of boiled rice
• a little pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil the fowl in white stock until tender.

2. 2

   Remove and set aside.

3. 3

   Wash and cut leeks into one-inch lengths, add to broth with boiled rice, pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Boil for half an hour.

5. 5

   Cut fowl into joints, return to soup, boil up, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 383. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two quarts of white stock until it is tender. Take it up and put it aside. "Wash two bunches of fine l(;eks. Trim away the roots, and part of the heads, and cut them into one-inch lengths. Put them into the broth, and add half a povmd of boiled rice, and a little pepper and salt. Boil half an hour. Cut the fowl into neat joints, put it into the soup, boil up, and serve very hot. The above is tiue Cock-a-Leekie Soup

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