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Vegetable Marrow, Spring Soup

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Time to simmer is about half an hour.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vegetable Marrow, Spring Soup of. — Pare the marrows, remove the seeds, and cut them into small pieces; weigh, and put them into a saucepan with a piece of butter about the size of an egg, and stew gently imtil the marrow is reduced to a pulp. Add boiling stock, a little at a time, in the proportion of a pint of stock to a pound of marrow, weighed before cooking. Add salt, a small lump of sugar, and cayenne, and serve with toasted sijipets. Time, about half an hour to simmer the marrows. Probable cost, 4d. per pint. Vegetable Marrow, Stuffed. — Peel thinly two moderate-sized marrows
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