Family Soup

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 quarts pot liquor
• 1 pound gravy beef
• 2 large onions
• 1 turnip
• 2 carrots
• bunch savory herbs
• 1 sprig parsley
• 5 cloves
• 2 blades mace
• pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Put all meat trimmings, meat-bones, etc., into stewpan.

2. 2

   Stick onions with cloves, add them with other vegetables to meat; pour over all the pot liquor; set over slow fire and let simmer gently, removing all scum as it rises.

3. 3

   Strain through fine hair-sieve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Family Soup. — Time, 6 hours; 3 or 4 quarts pot liquor, i. e., the water in which mutton or salt beef has been boiled. Anv bones from dressed meat, trimmings of poultry, scraps of meat or 1 pound gravy beef, 2 large onions, 1 turnip, 2 carrots, a little celery seed tied in a piece muslin, bunch savory herbs, 1 sprig pars- ley, 5 cloves, 2 blades mace, a few peppercorns, pepper and salt

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