Shin of Beef Soup

Ingredients

• Get a shin-bone of beef weighing four or five pounds
• a table spoonful of salt
• a table spoonful of pepper
• one large carrot
• one large turnip
• one leek
• one bunch of parsley
• six small potatoes
• a teacupful of pearl barley
• a tablespoonful of wheat flour
• a gill of water

Method

1. 1

   Wash the meat in cold water, rub in salt and pepper, and put into a soup-pot with water equal to the weight of the meat.

2. 2

   Bring to a boil, skim, cover, and simmer for two hours.

3. 3

   Add grated carrot, sliced turnip, leek, parsley, halved potatoes, and washed barley.

4. 4

   Cover and boil gently for one hour.

5. 5

   Add more salt and a thickening of flour and water, stir in, cover for fifteen minutes, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHIN OF BEEP SOUP. Get a shin-bone of beef weighing four or five pounds; let the butcher saw it in pieces about two inches long, that the marrow may become the better incorporated with the soup, and so give it greater richness. Wash the meat in cold water; mis together of salt and pepper each a table spoonful, rub this well into the meat, then pnt into a soup-pot; put to it as many quarts of water as there are pounds of meat, and set it over a moderate fire, until it comes to a boil, then take off whatever scum may have risen, after which cover it close, and set it where it will boil very gently for two hours longer, then skim it again, and add to it the proper vegetables, which are these — M ItoTHE&'a Coos Book. one large carrot grated, one large turnip cut in slices (the yellow or rata baga is best),ono leek cut in slices, one bnnch of parsley cut small, six small potatoes peeled and cut in half, and a teacnpful of pearl barley well washed, then cover it and let it boil gently for one hour, at which time add an- other tablesponful of salt and a thickening made of a table- spoonful of wheat flour and a gill of water

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