Old Fashioned Beef Soup

Ingredients

• four or five pounds of lean beef shoulder
• order with it a marrow-bone
• cover with five quarts of cold water
• sufficient carrots to measure one pint
• one cupful and a half
• six large leeks
• chop white onions to measure a half pint
• several stalks of celery
• a half cupful of rice
• one tablespoonful of parsley
• one tablespoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash meat and bone, place in a kettle, cover with cold water and let stand for at least an hour.

2. 2

   Five hours before serving, place on fire, cover, and heat slowly to boiling point.

3. 3

   Boil hard for a moment, then simmer.

4. 4

   Add sliced carrots, rice, and salt after two hours.

5. 5

   An hour later, add remaining ingredients except parsley, which goes in five minutes before serving.

6. 6

   Stir frequently.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD FASHIONED BEEF SOUP. ''Table Talk/' Select four or five pounds of lean beef shoulder, cross rib or under roimd — ^in one large square piece and order with it a marrow-bone. Wash meat and HOW TO MAKE SOUPS. 59 bone, place in a kettle, cover with five quarts of cold water and let stand on the table for at least an hour. Five hours before the soup is to be served, place on the fire, cover and heat slowly to the boiling point, boil hard for a moment, then draw back where it will sim- mer slowly but steadily. Scrape and thinly slice suffli- cient carrots to measure one pint, scrape and grate car- rots to measure one cupful and a half — ^the deeper red they are the better. Trim, wash and thinly slice six large leeks or chop white onions to measure a half pint Wash, cut into four-inch lengths and tie together sev- eral stalks of celery — green tops will do. Wash and drain a half cupful of rice and cut fine one tablespoonful of parsley. In two hours add to the kettle the sliced carrots, rice and one tablespoonful of salt

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