Soups with Meat, and Purees
Green Pea Puree
Boil until tender a quart of shelled peas in salted hot water with a young onion, a few sprigs of parsley, and 6 mint leaves. Rub through a…
Red Bean Puree
Soak a pint of red kidney beans in cold water for several hours. Drain, and put them in a saucepan with enough white broth or stock to well…
Lima Bean Puree
Cook the beans for ten minutes in boiling water; drain, rinse; put again into plenty of boiling water, cook till perfectly tender. Press…
Carrot Puree
Use only the outer, dark-colored portion of the carrots. Scrape, wash, and cut in dice enough to make a cupful. Fry them in 2…
Tomato Puree with Macaroni
1 can tomatoes; 1 pint beef stock; 1 cup boiled macaroni; 1 stick chopped celery; 1 sprig parsley; 1 teasponful sugar; 1/2 teaspoonful…
Oatmeal Puree
1 1/2 cups cooked oatmeal; 2 small onions, chopped; 1 cup celery, chopped; 1 pint milk; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 saltspoon…
Tomato and Green Pea Puree
1/2 can tomatoes (or same amount of fresh tomatoes cut in pieces); 1 pint shelled green peas; 1 small onion; 1 pint stock; 1 pint water; 1…
Tomato Puree
1/2 teaspoonful of extract of beef; 1 onion; 1 bay leaf; 1 sprig of parsley; 4 cupfuls of tomatoes; 2 cupfuls of hot water; 2 teaspoonfuls…
Quenelle Soup
Into a cupful of boiling water put a piece of butter the size of a walnut, add a pinch of salt, and stir in sufficient flour to make a…
Parisian-Spanish Soup
Chop 4 good-sized onions, and fry them in a tablespoonful of butter and a teaspoonful of sugar until a light golden brown. Put them in a…
Parisian Soup
Cut 4 or 5 leeks into strips and fry in a little butter. Add to them a quart of good mutton stock; add salt and pepper to taste. Add 6…
Velvet Soup Maigre
This is a very simple and economical soup, as there is no meat in it. Cook some tapioca in water with a little salt and pepper. Put a lump…
Scotch Hotchpotch
Strain and remove all the fat from 2 quarts of good mutton or lamb broth, add 2 grated carrots and 3 sliced ones, enough young turnips…
A Simple Onion Soup
Mince half a dozen medium-sized onions very finely. Put in a stewpan over a slow fire with 3 ounces of melted butter, dredge a little flour…
Sago Soup (Hawaiian Recipe)
Wash 1/4 cup pearl sago through several cold waters; cook slowly in 1 quart water till the sago is transparent; add a pinch of salt, a…
Cock-a-Leekie
Boil a young fowl until tender in 2 quarts of white stock. Take out the fowl and set to one side. Wash and cut off the roots and part of…
Lettuce Soup
Wash thoroughly and drain the water from a dozen lettuce hearts. Cut them down the centres, leaving the stems whole. Dash them with salt…
Soup of Herbs with Parmesan
Wash in several waters a handful each of chervil, chives, and sorrel, and a head of tender celery; add a very little tarragon and a few…
Flemish Soup
Cut into small pieces carrots, onions, and turnips in equal quantities sufficient to make 2 cupfuls; add 2 leeks cut in small pieces, a…
Family Soup
Put any meat bones from dressed meats, together with trimmings of poultry and scraps of meat, into a stewpan. Add to the meat 2 onions…
French Soup
Put 4 pounds of meat into a stock pot with 3 quarts of water; set over slow fire and let it boil gently, carefully taking off scum that…
Dried-Bean Soup
Soak 1 quart of kidney, field, rice, or mockturtle beans overnight. In the morning put them in a closely covered soup-pot with 2 pounds of…
Hard-Pea Soup
Soak 2 pounds of split peas overnight in water, to which a little soda has been added. All the peas that float should be thrown away…
Cocoanut Soup
2 pounds veal and a knuckle bone; 1 cocoanut; 2 quarts water; 1 cup cream; 1 egg; 1 tablespoon arrowroot or nice flour; 1 tablespoon…
Mock-Turtle Soup
1 calf's head; 3 pounds lean veal; 3 pounds beef-shank; 5 quarts water; 1 slice good ham; 1 carrot; 1 turnip; 1 celery root; 2 onions; 1…
Turkey Soup
Take the carcass and all that is left of a roast turkey. Cut all the good bits of meat from the bones and put it aside by itself; take out…
White Bean Soup
Soak 3 cupfuls of dried white beans for eight hours. Drain, and then cover them with 2 quarts of boiling water. Boil the beans until they…
Spinach Soup
Pick over, wash, and stem half a peck of spinach, put in the inner vessel of a double boiler, with boiling water in the outer, and cook…
Farmer's Chowder
Parboil and slice 6 good potatoes. Chop and fry half a pound of salt pork, and when it begins to crisp add a minced onion and cook to a…
Succotash Soup
String and cut the string beans into inch lengths, then shred each inch into thin strips. Grate the kernels from six ears of corn, and boil…
Tomato and Bean Soup
Pour 3 pints of cold water over beef-bones and place on the fire. Add half a sliced carrot, 2 stalks of refuse celery, and a grated onion…
Red Tomato Soup
Skim the grease from a quart of beef stock and turn into it a can of tomatoes, or a quart of fresh tomatoes which have been peeled and…
Carrot Soup
Wash and slice in thin slices one dozen half-grown carrots. Place in a saucepan with 2 tablespoonfuls of butter and a little sugar and…
Sorrel Soup
Chop the sorrel very fine, and boil until tender in a quart of mutton stock. Rub through a colander and return to the fire. Thicken a pint…
Okra Soup (Stir slices of corned ham)
Stir 2 slices of corned ham (minced), a chopped onion, and two dozen okra into a quart of chicken stock. Add a pint of strained tomatoes…
Savory Rice Soup
Wash half a cupful of rice. Place in boiling water, and boil for twelve minutes. Drain the water off, pour 1 quart of stock over it, and…
Crowned Potato Soup
Peel and quarter 12 potatoes. Fry the potatoes together with a sliced onion in a soup-pot in which 3 tablespoonfuls of beef dripping have…
Savory Potato Soup
Put over the fire a good marrowbone in 3 pints of cold water. Add a small sliced carrot, a stalk or two of celery, and a grated onion. Boil…
Split-Pea Soup-No. 1
This soup may be made of dried, split, green, or yellow peas. Let a large cupful of the peas soak overnight. In the morning drain, cover…
Bean and Tomato Soup
Soak a quart of beans eight hours. Drain, and soak in warm water for another hour. Drain, and put into the soup-pot with a gallon of cold…
Mock-Turtle Bean Soup
Make like white-bean soup, adding, at the last, a tablespoonful of butter which has been rubbed in a tablespoonful of browned flour. When…
Okra Soup (Put pounds soup meat in quarts)
Put 2 pounds soup meat in 2 quarts cold water; when it comes to a boil, skim, and put in 1/4 peck okra, 4 good-sized tomatoes, 1 onion, 2…
Parsnip Soup
Melt 4 ounces butter in wide saucepan, and slice in 2 pounds tender parsnips; cook slowly till tender, then cover them well with any…
Split-Pea Soup-No. 2
Pick over and wash 1 cup dried split peas; soak several hours in cold water. Put them on in 3 pints fresh cold water, and simmer until…
Baked-Bean Soup
To a pint of baked beans add 1 quart water and a slice of onion; boil to a pulp, mash, and season. An equal part of sweet corn may be…
Bean Soup
Soak a pint of beans in 3 or 4 quarts of water overnight; pour off in the morning, and put the beans on to boil in 2 quarts cold water. Fry…
American Soup
Cut into small pieces a pound of mutton (a piece from the neck will do); put it in a saucepan with half a pound of split peas that have…