Cottage Soup (another way)

Ingredients

• a large lump of dripping the size of a turkey's egg
• half a pound of fresh beef cut into small pieces
• two large turnips
• two large carrots
• two leeks
• two cupfuls of cold water
• half a pound of rice
• four quarts of hot water
• two tablespoonfuls of salt
• a dessert-spoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Place dripping in a stewpan with beef, turnips, carrots, and leeks.

2. 2

   Cook over a clear fire for 8-10 minutes.

3. 3

   Gradually add cold water and rice.

4. 4

   Boil for 5-6 minutes, then add hot water, salt, and pepper.

5. 5

   Boil again, skim, and simmer for 3 hours.

6. 6

   Serve with powdered mint.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 410. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cottage Soup (another way). — Put a large lump of dripping the size of a turkey's egg into a stewpan, with half a pound of fresh beef cut into small pieces, two large turnips, two large carrots, and two leeks, all finely sliced. Place them over a clear fire, and move them about for eight or ten minutes, until half cooked. Add, a little at a time, two cupfuls of cold water and half a pound of rice. Boil for five or six minutes, then add four quarts of hot water, two table-spoonf ids of salt, and a dessert- spoonful of pepper. Boil once more, skim the soup well, then draw it to the side of the fire, and simmer it gently but continuously for thi-ee hours. Serve a little powdered mint with it, to be used or not, according to taste. Sufficient for three quarts. Probable cost, 4d. per quart. Cottage Soup, Baked.— Take one pint of dried pais, wash them well, and leave them all night in a quart of water. Cut half a pound of fresh meat into sHces, and lay them at the bottom of a deep stono jar. Put over them a slice of bacon, two large onions, two large carrots sliced, two or three sticks of celery, two ta'jle-spoonfuls of sal

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