Beef Soup
Crack the bone of a shin of beef, and put it on to boil in one quart water. To every pound meat add one large teaspoonful salt to each quart water. Let it boil two hours and skim it well. Then add: 4 turnips, pared and cut into quarters. 4 onions, pared and sliced. 2 carrots, scraped and sliced. 1 root of celery, cut into small pieces. When the vegetables are tender, add a little parsley chopped fine, with salt and pepper to the taste. Serve hot.--Mrs. P McG.
Another Recipe for Beef Soup.
One shin beef in one-half gallon water, put on before break fast and boiled until dinner. Thicken with brown flour two or three hours before dinner. Put in one carrot, two turnips, one onion, thyme, cabbage, and celery seed.--Mrs.