The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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add two or three thin strips of pork and a tablespoonful of butter, two onions, stuck with six cloves each, and a blade of mace. Continue to skim as may be necessary, and then let it just simmer for at least five hours more. Drop in a small bunch of parsley half an hour before it is done. Before sending to the table strain through a clean cloth, and color suitably with burnt sugar.

III. Soups of Various Meats.

SOUP is made of various meats, of chicken, and also of fish. Browns are thin soups, and the meat from which they are made is also to be eaten separately; yet most cooks are in the habit of calling them soups. Thus vermicelli, macaroni, noodle and okra soups are thickened with these ingredients, and are made with chicken, beef or veal.

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