Modern cookery, in all its branches: reduced to a system of easy practice. For the use of private families / By Eliza Acton. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts.

  • Acton, Eliza, 1799-1859.
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Modern cookery, in all its branches: reduced to a system of easy practice. For the use of private families / By Eliza Acton. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¢ 3 gallon (more can be added afterwards if needed), two mild let the soup stew very softly from five to six hours, if the the bones. The skin of a calf’s head, a calf’s foot, or an old Lean ham, 1 lb.; veal, 7 Ibs.; water, 4 to 6 quarts; salt, 14 oz. (more if needed); onions, 2; celery, 1 head; carrots, 2; MUTTON-STOCK FOR SOUPS. Equal parts of beef and mutton, with the addition of a small portion of ham, or of very lean bacon, make excellent stock, especially for winter-soups. ‘The necks of fowls, the bones of an undressed calf’s head, or of any uncooked joint may be added to it with advantage. According to the quality of soup desired, pour from a pint to a pint and a half of cold water to each pound of meat; and after the liquor has been well skim- Stick to the gallon, two small heads of celery, three mild, middling-sized onions, three well-flavoured turnips, as many carrots, a faggot of thyme and parsley, half a teaspoonful of white peppercorns, twelve cloves, and a large blade of mace. Draw the soup-pot to the side of the fire, and boil the stock as gently as possible for about six hours; then strain, and sét it by for use. Be particu- larly careful to clear it entzrely from fat before it is prepared for table. One third of beef or veal, with two of mutton, will © make very good soup; or mutton only will answer the purpose quite well upon occasion. Beef, 4 lbs. ; mutton, 4 Ibs. ; (or, beef or veal from 2 to 3 Ibs. ; mutton from 5 to 6 lbs.;) water, 1 to 14 gallon; salt, 14 0z.; ozs.; 1 bunch of herbs; peppercorns, } teaspoonful; cloves, 12; mace, 1 large blade: 6 hours. Ods.—Salt should be used sparingly at first for stock in which