Old-Fashioned Meat Soup

Ingredients

• meat bones or chicken bones
• covers them with cold water
• a teaspoonful or so of dried herbs
• mashed potato
• cooked vegetables like carrots, turnips, beets, or whole peas and beans

Method

1. 1

   Cover the bones with cold water in a kettle and simmer gently all day, adding more hot water as needed.

2. 2

   Remove the bones when they are bare.

3. 3

   Add any leftover cooked vegetables and a little stewed fruit if not too sweet.

4. 4

   If the soup is thin, thicken with flour or add mashed potato or beans.

5. 5

   Just before serving, add larger pieces of meat and cooked vegetables.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Food and health (1916) by Helen Kinne, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Old-fashioned meat soup. Everybody says that Grandmother Stark can make the best soup in Pleasant Valley : and she has not any rule ! You will find recipes for making soup in all the cook books, but this is Grandmother Stark's method. She uses meat bones or chicken bones and any pieces of cold meat that are left. She cuts up the larger pieces of meat and puts them to one side. She breaks up the bones, puts them in a kettle, and covers them with cold water. The kettle stands on the stove all day long, simmering gently, and from time to time Mrs. Stark adds a little more hot water. When the soup has simmered until the bones are bare, they are removed. Then Mrs. Stark looks in the pantry and refrigerator, and adds any cooked vegetable that is left, and a little stewed fruit, if it is not too sweet. When she is asked what she uses, she says, " Just whatever I find." Sometimes she adds a teaspoonful or so of dried herbs or a few cloves. If the soup is a little thin, it is thickened with flour, but THE HOME DINNER 219 when cold mashed potato or beans are added, no other ^thickening is needed. Just before serving, the larger pieces of meat are added and, if there are not enough of these, cooked vegetables like carrots, turniiJs, beets, or whole peas and beans

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