Soups
Soup Stock
To four pounds of lean beef (the inferior parts are quite as good for this purpose) put four quarts of cold water (soft is best), wash the…
Soup From Stock
To make soup from any stock, put on as much stock as needed (if in jelly, scrape the sediment from off the bottom), add seasoning, water…
Another Way
When stock is drawn off, season with celery salt. A little vermicelli boiled in it for fifteen minutes will give it more body-or some of…
An Economical Soup
Take a soup bone (any piece of beef not too fat will do), wash well, place in kettle with sufficient cold water for soup; let it boil, *…
Asparagus Soup
Cut the tops from about thirty heads of asparagus, about half an inch long, and boil the rest; cut off all the tender portions and rub…
Beef Soup (Take the cracked joints)
Take the cracked joints of beef, and after putting the meat in the pot and covering it well with water, let it come to a boil, when it…
Beef Soup With Okra
Fry one pound "round" steak cut in bits, two table-spoons butter, and one sliced onion, till very brown; add to three or four quarts cold…
Beef Soup (Take bones and trimmings)
Take bones and trimmings from a sirloin steak, put over fire after breakfast in three quarts water, boil steadily until about an hour…
Bean Soup
Boil a small soup-bone in about two quarts water until the meat can be separated from the bone, remove bone, add a coffee-cup white beans…
Turtle Bean Soup
Soak one pint black beans over night, then put them into three quarts water with beef bones or a small piece of lean salt pork, boil three…
Saturday Bean Soup
Baked beans and brown bread form a Sunday breakfast for so many that the following will be a useful and economical soup for Saturday…
Meatless Bean Soup
Parboil one pint beans, drain off the water, add fresh, let boil until perfectly tender, season with pepper and salt, add a piece of butter…
Carrot Soup
Put in soup-kettle a knuckle of veal, three or four quarts cold water, a quart finely-sliced carrots, one head celery; boil two and a half…
Celery Cream Soup
Boil a small cup rice in three pints milk, until it will pass through a sieve. Grate the white part of two heads of celery (three if small)…
Chicken Soup
In boiling chickens for salads, etc., the broth (water in which they are boiled) may be used for soup. When the chickens are to be served…
Clam Soup
Wash clams, and place in just sufficient water for the soup, let boil, and as soon as they clear from shells, take out and place clams in a…
Green Corn Soup
One large fowl, or four pounds veal (the knuckle or neck will do), put over fire in one gallon cold water without salt, cover tightly and…
Gumbo
Slice a large onion and put it with a slice of bacon or fat ham into a skillet and brown it; skin and cut up two quarts tomatoes, cut thin…
Mock Turtle Or Calf'S-Head Soup
Lay one large calf's head well cleaned and washed, and four pig's feet, in bottom of a large pot, and cover with a gallon of water; boil…
Mutton Soup
Boil a nice leg of mutton, and take the water for the soup, add two onions chopped fine, potato, half a cup of barley, and two large…
Noodle Soup
Add noodles to beef or any other soup after straining; they will cook in fifteen or twenty minutes, and are prepared in the following…
Okra Soup
Take a nice joint of beef filled with marrow, one gallon water, one onion cut fine, two sprigs parsley, half a peck of okra, one quart…
Oyster Soup With Milk
Pour one quart cold water over one quart oysters if solid; if not solid, use one pint of water, drain through a colander into the…
Plain Oyster Soup
Pour a quart oysters in colander, rinse by pouring over them pint cold water, put this in porcelain kettle, add a pint boiling water, let…
Pot Au Feu
Take a good-sized beef-bone with plenty of meat on it, extract the marrow and place in a pot on the back of the range, covering the beef…
Green Pea Soup
Boil three pints shelled pease in three quarts of water; when quite soft, mash through a colander, adding a little water to free the pulp…
Potato Soup
Some To one gallon of water add six large potatoes chopped fine, one tea-cup rice, a lump of butter size of an egg, one table-spoon flour…
Swiss Soup
Five gallons water, six potatoes and three turnips sliced; boil five hours until perfectly dissolved and the consistency of pea soup…
Tomato Soup
Skim and strain one gallon of stock made from nice fresh beef; take three quarts tomatoes, remove skin and cut out hard center, put through…
Meatless Tomato Soup
One quart tomatoes, one of water; stew till soft; add tea-spoon soda, allow to effervesce, and add quart of boiling milk, salt, butter, and…
Turkey-Bone Soup
After a roasted turkey has been served a portion of the meat still adheres to the bones, especially about the neck; "drumsticks" are left…
Vegetable Soup (After boiling a soup bone)
After boiling a soup bone or piece of beef until done, add to the broth boiling water to make the amount of soup wanted, and when boiling…
Vegetable Soup (Three onions three carrots)
Three onions, three carrots, three turnips, one small cabbage, one pint tomatoes; chop all the vegetables except the tomatoes very fine…
Veal Soup
To about three pounds of a well-broken joint of veal, add four quarts water, and set it over to boil; prepare one-fourth pound macaroni by…
Bread-Dice For Soups
Take slices of stale bread, cut in small squares, throw in hot lard and fry till brown, skim out, drain, and put in the soup-tureen before…
Caramel For Soups
For caramel, put one tea-cup sugar and two tea-spoons water in a sauce-pan over the fire, stir constantly till it is a dark color, then add…