Leek Soup

Ingredients

• an old hen, previously drawn and disjointed
• fill up with cold water
• 2 or 3 young leeks
• a handful of rice
• season to taste

Method

1. 1

   Place the hen in a fire-proof pot, fill with cold water, boil, and drain.

2. 2

   Add soup vegetables and seasoning.

3. 3

   Remove the meat from the bones, cut into pieces, and cook leeks in strained chicken stock.

4. 4

   Add chicken pieces and cooked rice to the soup, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Leek Soup. Place in a fire-proof earthenware pot ( marmite ) an old hen, previously drawn and disjointed, and fill up with cold water ; boil up and drain, then add some soup, vegetables, and seasoning. When the bird is Leeks. cooked, take up and remove the meat from the bones, and cut it in even-sized pieces. Take 2 or 3 young leeks, wash and drain, cut off the white part of each and divide in i-in. pieces, blend and cook the leeks in the io4 HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES. strained chicken stock. When cooked, add the pieces of chicken to the soup, also a handful of rice pre- viously cooked in white stock, season to taste

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