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Hochepot Gantoise

Cut into half-inch-square pieces half pound each raw breast of mutton, beef, and lean pork, one raw pig's tail and quarter pound salt pork. Place them in a large saucepan with three quarts of water, season with a teaspoon salt, half teaspoon white pepper and two saltspoons grated nutmeg. Cover the pan and let cook on the range for thirty minutes. Add then a very small, well-cleaned green cabbage cut into quarters, eight small, peeled white onions, two carrots, two turnips, cut into julienne strips, and two crushed beans sound garlic and four branches of parsley tied together. Cover the pan and let slowly boil for an hour and a half, add two peeled raw potatoes cut into half-inch squares, and boil for forty-five minutes more. Mix in another saucepan a half ounce butter with one ounce flour, stir well while cooking for a minute, then strain the broth into pan. Mix well until it comes to a boil, then pour the contents of this into the original pan. Mix a little, take up the parsley, pour into a hot, deep dish and serve.