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POT-AU-FEU, HOUSEHOLD (a restorative broth)

Put in a sufficiently large earthen pot four pounds of beef sliced, a good knuckle of veal, and a fowl half roasted. Add nearly three quarts of cold water, set it at the side of the fire, and skim gently. Add salt, two carrots, a turnip, three leeks, and half a head of celery tied in a bundle, an onion with a clove stuck in it, and let the whole boil slowly for five hours without ceasing. Then take up the roots and trim them neatly; taste the broth, using but little salt to flavour the soup; skim, add the roots to it, and serve. This is a healthy soup, and good in families where the nourishment of children is to be attended to.