Mulligatawny Soup (Potage a la Mulligatawny)

Ingredients

• 1  oz. flour or rice flour
• 1 dessert-sp. curry powder
• 1 tea-sp. curry paste
• pt. hot milk
• A small bunch of herbs
• A squeeze of lemon juice
• Pepper and salt
• 14 lbs. lean mutton or 1 small rabbit
• 1.5oz. butter or dripping
• 3 pts. cold water
• 2 oz. ham trimmings
• 2 onions
• 1 sour apple or a stick of rhubarb
• A small piece of carrot
• and turnip

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the meat and cut it in small pieces away from the bone.

2. 2

   If using a rabbit, wash it well, and let it soak for half an hour in cold water with a little salt.

3. 3

   Lift it out, dry, and cut into small joints.

4. 4

   Melt the dripping or butter in a saucepan, add to it the vegetables and apple cut in small pieces, and cook them for a few minutes over the fire.

5. 5

   Add the curry powder, flour, and chutney, and mix well; then the meat, water, herbs, pepper, and salt.

6. 6

   Mix well for a few minutes and then simmer slowly from 1.5 to 2 hours, skimming when necessary.

7. 7

   When ready, strain through a fine wire or hair sieve into a basin.

8. 8

   Lift out the best pieces of the meat for serving in the soup and rub as much as possible of the remainder through the sieve.

9. 9

   Rinse out the saucepan and return the soup to it with the meat.

10. 10

    Season carefully, add a little lemon juice if necessary and the hot milk just before serving.

11. 11

    Serve in a hot soup tureen and serve plainly boiled rice separately.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mulligatawny Soup (Potage a la Mulligatawny) 1 \ oz. flour or rice flour. 1 dessert-sp. curry powder. 1 tea-sp. curry paste. \ pt. hot milk. A small bunch of herbs. A squeeze of lemon juice. Pepper and salt. 14 lbs. lean mutton or 1 small rabbit, ljoz. butter or dripping. 3 pts. cold water. 2 oz. ham trimmings. 2 onions. 1 sour apple or a stick of rhubarb. A small piece of carrot and turnip

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