Mullagatawny Soup
INGREDI- ENTS for soup for 8 persons.- tablespoonfuls of Holbrook's curry-powder, 6 onions, 1 clove of garlic, 1 oz. of pounded almonds, a little lemon-pickle or mango-juice to taste; 1 fowl or rabbit; 4 slices of lean bacon; 2 quarts of medium stock, or, if wanted very good, best stock. AVERAGE COST, 3s. 6d.
Slice and fry the onions of a nice colour; line the stewpan with the bacon; cut up the rabbit or fowl into small joints and slightly brown them; put in the fried. onions, the garlic and stock, and simmer gently till the meat is tender; skim very carefully and when the meat is done, rub the curry-powder to a smooth batter; add it to the soup with the almonds, which must be first pounded, with a little of the stock. Put in seasoning and lemonjuice or mango-juice to taste, and serve boiled rice with it.
TIME.-2 hours.
SEASONABLE in winter.
Note. This soup can also be made with breast of veal or calf's head. Vegetable mullagatawny is made with veal stock, by boiling and pulping chopped vegetable marrow, cucumbers, onions and tomatoes and seasoning with currypowder and cayenne. Nice pieces of meat, good curry-powder and strong stock, are necessary to make this soup good.
Mullagatawny Soup. (Made with Tinned Meat.) - INGREDIENTS for sufficient soup for 6 persons. -A 2-lb. tin of Australian mutton, 2 onions, 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 1 oz. of cooked or uncooked bacon, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, a bunch of herbs, 1/2 a teaspoonful of sugar, the juice of a lemon, 1 oz. of curry-powder, a stick of rhubarb or 2 sour apples, 2 quarts of warm water, pepper and salt. AVERAGE COST, 1s. 8d.
Turn the meat into a basin, take off some of the fat and pour over it the water.
Put 2 oz. of the fat with the bacon into a saucepan; and when the fat has melted, add the onions sliced and frizzle for a few minutes; then add the other vegetablesand herbs, shaking in with them the flour and curry-powder and fry a few more minutes; then add the water and meat and stir till it boils and thickens thoroughly, when well skim and add the seasoning and lemonjuice. Allow the soup to boil till the vegetables are well cooked, then rub the soup through a hair sieve with a wooden spoon.
TIME.-1 hour.
SEASONABLE in winter. ز MULLED ALE.