Plain Meat Soup

Ingredients

• 1 shin of beef
• 5 quarts of water
• 1 small tablespoonful of salt
• 1 head celery, cut up
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 turnip
• 1 sprig of parsley
• 2 bay-leaves
• 6 whole cloves

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the meat and cut it off the bone.

2. 2

   Put the bone in a kettle first, then the meat on top, and pour in the water; cover and let stand on the back of the stove for an hour.

3. 3

   Draw it forward and let it cook.

4. 4

   Skim off the scum that rises.

5. 5

   Cover tightly and cook slowly for four hours; then add the cut-up vegetables and cook for one more hour.

6. 6

   Add salt, strain through a sieve, and then through a flannel bag, and set aside to cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Meat Soup 1 shin of beef. 5 quarts of water. 102 A LITTLE COOK BOOK 1 small tablespoonful of salt. 1 head celery, cut up. 1 onion. 1 carrot. 1 turnip. 1 sprig of parsley. 2 bay-leaves. 6 whole cloves

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