Meat Soup

Ingredients

• cut the meat into small pieces
• soak in cold water one hour
• salt should be added
• potatoes the last half hour

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat into small pieces, soak in cold water for one hour, then put it in the same water over the fire.

2. 2

   Bring slowly to the boiling point, set on the back of the stove, and let simmer until the meat drops to pieces.

3. 3

   Add vegetables and salt the last hour of cooking, and skim off all fat before serving hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A simple course in home economics for rural schools (1916) by Mary Edna Gearing, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eat Soup: In using meats to make soup, we wish to extract all the juices from the meat. To do this, cut the meat into small pieces, soak in cold water one hour and put it in this same water over the fire. Bring slowly to the boiling point, set on back of stove and let simmer until meat drops to pieces. Remember that if meat Is allowed to boil, the proteins are hardened on the outside, the juices cannot be extracted, and the soup will lack flavor. Vegetables and salt should be added the last hour of cooking — potatoes the last half hour

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