Stock for Soup

Ingredients

• two shins and fifteen or twenty pounds of coarse beef
• eight gallons of cold water
• two onions, sliced
• a handful of celery
• six turnips, cut up
• four pods of capsicum
• half an ounce each of cloves
• half an ounce each of mace
• a tablespoonful of black pepper
• a tablespoonful each, powdered, of garden herbs, such as savory
• a tablespoonful each, powdered, of thyme
• a tablespoonful each, powdered, of marjoram
• six slices of lean ham

Method

1. 1

   Put two shins and fifteen or twenty pounds of coarse beef in eight gallons of cold water.

2. 2

   Boil for eight or ten hours, keeping it covered.

3. 3

   Skim off all the grease.

4. 4

   Add two sliced onions, a handful of celery, six cut-up turnips, four pods of capsicum, half an ounce each of cloves and mace, a tablespoonful of black pepper, and powdered garden herbs.

5. 5

   Boil down to four gallons.

6. 6

   Strain through flannel and cool to form jelly.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 25 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stock for Soup. — To Prepare a Beefs Head for Soup Stock. — Aspar- agus Soup. — Beef Soup. —Chicken Soup. — Black Mexican Bean Soup. — Force-meat Balls for Bean Soup. — Corn Soup. — Calfs- head Soup. — Gumbo. — Mock-turtle Soup. — Little Eggs for Turtle or Mock-turtle Soup.— Oyster Soup, No. 1. — Oyster Soup, No. 2. — Okra Soup. — Ox-tail Soup. — Green-pea Soup. — Squirrel Soup. — ^Tomato Soup. — Good Lenten Soups. Stock fob Soup. Eably in the morning put two shins and fifteen or twen- ty pounds of coarse beef in eight gallons of cold water. Boil eight or ten hours, keeping it covered all the time. Carefully skim off all the grease. Put in two onions, sliced, a handful of celery, six turnips, cut up, four pods of capsicum, half an ounce each of cloves and mace, a table- spoonful of black pepper, garden herbs, such as savory, winter and summer, thyme and marjoram, a table-spoonful each, powdered, and six slices of lean ham

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