Lamb Soup

Ingredients

• Cut a shoulder of Lamb into moderately large pieces
• a sliced onion
• a little butter
• 1 table-spoonful of flour
• 1 table-spoonful of curry powder
• 3qts. of broth
• a bunch of parsley
• Jib. of boiled rice
• the yolks of three eggs
• a little cream

Method

1. 1

   Fry pieces of Lamb with onion and butter until browned.

2. 2

   Dredge in flour and curry powder, stir for a few minutes, then add broth and parsley.

3. 3

   Simmer until meat is cooked.

4. 4

   Remove meat, strain cooking liquor, add boiled rice, and boil gently.

5. 5

   Bone the meat, thicken soup with beaten yolks and cream, strain over meat, and serve hot with toast or fried bread.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 225. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lamb Soup. — Cut a shoulder of Lamb into moderately large pieces, and put them in a stewpan with a sliced onion and a little butter ; fry them till nicely browned, then dredge in 1 table-spoonful each of flour and curry powder, stir all over the fire for two or three minutes, then pour in 3qts. of broth, some trimmings of raw ham, and a bunch of parsley. When the liquor boils, move the stewpan to the side of the fire and continue simmering till the meat is cooked. When done, take the pieces of Lamb out, pass the cooking-liquor through a fine hair sieve or strainer into another stewpan, put in with it Jib. of boiled rice, and continue boiling gently for ten minutes. Bone the meat and put it in a soup-tureen ; thicken the soup with the yolks of three eggs beaten together with a little cream, then strain it through a fine colander over the meat, and serve while hot, with sippets of toast or small dice of fried bread in a separate vessel, such as a dish or plate. Minced Lamb. — Finely chop two onions and fry in a saucepan with 2oz. of butter for five minutes ; add 2 table-spoonfuls of flour

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