Coek-a-Leekie

Ingredients

• four pounds of leg of beef
• one old fowl
• a gallon of cold water
• four dozen leeks
• a teaspoonful of pepper
• a salt-spoonful of salt
• half a pound of prunes

Method

1. 1

   Put beef and fowl into cold water and bring to a boil.

2. 2

   Add sliced leeks and seasonings.

3. 3

   Boil for four hours, then add prunes and boil for another hour.

4. 4

   Remove meat and add fowl breast and wings to soup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Coek-a-Leekie. — Put four pounds of leg of beef and one old fowl into a gallon of cold water. As soon as it boils throw in four dozen leeks. The leeks must be sliced, and plenty of the green part left on. Add a teaspoonful of pepper and a salt- spoonful of salt. Let all boil together for four hours. Then put in half a pound of prunes

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