Economical Soup
Take bits of beef or mutton left over, also bones of same broken. Put in a kettle with a few nice Irish potatoes; to this add four pints of cold water, two small onions cut up fine, one dessertspoonful of rice. Boil the ingredients one and a half hours; strain and add one and a half pints of milk when boiling, into which a lump of butter size of an egg and a tablespoonful of flour has been stirred. Season with salt, pepper and bits of celery finely chopped; also small squares of bread or cracker fried brown in butter.