Scotch Soup

Ingredients

• 1 bone
• 2 onions or leeks
• 1 lb. lean beef
• A bit of carrot
• turnip
• and celery
• 1 teacupful oatmeal
• 10 breakfastcupfuls water
• Salt
• and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Take the fat from the bone and put it on to boil with the water.

2. 2

   Add the carrot, turnip, celery, and one onion, and boil for 3 hours and strain.

3. 3

   This makes stock, and may be made a day or two before it is used.

4. 4

   Then put a little dripping in the soup pot, cut the meat in small squares, chop an onion finely, and fry them all in the dripping; add the stock and allow it to boil, then add gradually the oatmeal, a dessertspoonful of salt and a little pepper.

5. 5

   Let all boil three-quarters of an hour and serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SCOTCH SOUP. 1 bone. I 2 onions or leeks. 1 lb. lean beef. A bit of carrot, turnip and celery. 1 teacupful oatmeal. I io breakfastcupfuls water. Salt and pepper

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