Consomme Knickerbocker

Ingredients

• 6 qts chicken broth
• fried vegetables
• chopped fresh tomatoes
• small amount of barley

Method

1. 1

   Make chicken broth dark with fried vegetables and chopped tomatoes.

2. 2

   Add a small amount of barley.

3. 3

   Strain and skim the broth, then add diced vegetables sautéed with butter and sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 277. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Consomme Knickerbocker (6 qts 30 cents.) Lake trout stuffed (3 lbs and stuffing, 30 cents.) Potatoes 'a la Colbert. Boiled ham Cshank, 2 orders 5 cents.) Roast chicken with currant jelly (4 hens, 32 orders no cents.) Beef a la mode Allemande (3 lbs net and trimmings 45 cents.) Braised rnutton with nudels (2 briskets, 4 lbs and trimmings 40 cents.) Summer squash 14, beets 4, cabbage 10, rice 3, corn 15, potatoes 15; (61 cents.) Baked prune pudding (2^ qts with sauce 28 cents.) Custard pie (2 large, deep 24 cents.) Blueberry pie (i qt, 2 pies, large, thin 20 cents.) Lemon ice cream (5 pts pure cream, sugar, flavor, freezing, makes 8 pts for 75 cents.) Cakes, assorted kinds (2 lbs 20 cents.) Nuts, raisins, cheese* crackers, pickles (average 42 cents.) Milk, buttermilk 25^ gals. 30, cream 1 qt 20, coffee 8, tea 4, butter 20. jelly 10, bread 8, sugar 8 (108 cents ) Total $6 44; 42 persons: 15^ cents a plate. 913— Consomme Knickerbockar. It is chicken broth made dark colored with fried veget.ibles and chopped fresh tomatoes, and a small amount of barley

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