Soupa (Meat Soup)

Ingredients

• a brace of partridges
• a hare
• six quarts of cold water
• four onions
• one pound of carrots
• one pound of turnip
• three tablespoonfuls of ground rice
• one breakfastcupful of water

Method

1. 1

   Wash partridges and hare, put in a saucepan with cold water, boil, skim, and simmer for an hour.

2. 2

   Remove meat, cut from bones, return bones to soup, and simmer for two more hours.

3. 3

   Fry the meat, add onions, herbs, carrots, and turnip to the soup.

4. 4

   Mix ground rice with water, add to soup, season, and simmer.

5. 5

   Add liver balls and meats, boil gently before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soupa (Meat Soup) Agneshka Yahnia (Ragout of Mutton) Pestarva Yahnia (Stewed Trout) Pile Petchene s' Oris (Braised Fowl with Rice) Zele Yahnia (Stewed Cabbage) Yarebitza Petchena (Braised Patridges) Omlets Sladko (Sweet Omelet) Oroshtia (Fruit) Kafe" (Coffee) 80 BULGARIA Soupa. (Meat Soup.) Wash a brace of partridges and a hare, and put them into a. saucepan with six quarts of cold water. When boiling, move the saucepan to the side of the fire, skim the liquor, and let it simmer for an hour ; then take out the hare and partridges, and cut all the meat from the bones. Return the bones to the soup, and simmer for two hours longer, cut the flesh of the partridges and hare into nice sized pieces, and fry them in butter till well browned ; then take them out of the pan, drain, and put them on a plate. Slice four onions, put them in the pan in which the meat was fried, adding more butter if necessary, and try them till nicely browned ; then put them in the soup along with a bunch of fine herbs and one pound of carrots and turnip. In two hours time strain the soup, put it again in the saucepan, and put in the fried meat and some small pieces of carrot and turnip that have been cooked in clear water. Mix three tablespoonfuls of ground rice with one breakfastcupful of water

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