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Kentucky Receipt Book

Ingredients

Directions

  1. do not wet the freshly-cut surface of meai. Cut meat from hones and put in a soup kettle. Put a perforated pie pan in hottom to prevent meat touching the hottom. Cover with cold water and sim- mer one hour. There should be a close-fitting top. on kettle. Then boil 5 minutes and put on back of range to simmer 8 hours.

  2. Cut 3 pounds of lean beef in small pieces, with 1 large carrot and 1 large onion. Have the vegetables washed and peeled, then put with the beef 4 cloves, salt and pepper to taste, a very small piece of red pepper pod. Put this in a soup pot with 1 tablespoon of butter, then fill up the pot with stock from a boiled chicken. You can boil the carcass of a roasted turkey, and put this stock in instead of the chicken. Let it come to a good boil, skim thoroughly, and set pot on back of range to simmer slowly 1 hours. Strain this and keep in cool place until the next day. Skim off all grease, put in porcelain kettle with the well-beaten white of 1 egg, let it come to a good boil and serve very hot. One teacup of sherry wine may be added if desired.

  3. Thickening for Soups.

  4. Soups are thickened with flour, corn starch or rice flour, 1 tablespoon for each quart of soup, heaping if flour is used; scant if rice flour or corn starch. Mix flour with cold water to a smooth paste, then add liquid until it is easily poured into soup. Let it boil 20 minutes. If butter is used, put in a saucepan, and when bubbling stir in flour quickly until smooth ; then add gradually 1 cup of hot soup : it should be thin enough to pour. In vegetable soups or purees as soon as butter and flour are blended it can be added to the soup. If a brown thickening is desired, melt the butter and let it become brown, then add the flour at once and stir quickly. Add water or soup gradually. Flour that is browned while dry colors, but does not thicken. Thickened soups should be of the consistency of good cream. Purees are thicker.

  5. To Clear Soup Stock.

  6. Remove fat and allow the white and shell of 1 egg for every quart of stock. If you wish to flavor the stock more highly, add a/2 a saltspoon of celery seed, and the thinnest possible shavings from the rinds of half a lemon. Add also the lemon juice, and more salt and pepper if needed .Mix celery seed, lemon and egg with the cold stock and beat well. Stir constantly until liquid is hot, then allow it to boil 10 minutes. Put on back of range, and add i/. cup of cold water. Let it remain 10 minutes, then strain through cloth wrung out of hot water, which must be placed in a colander. Allow it to drain slowly. Serve as a clear soup. Heat to boiling point and have in tureen thin slices of lemon, 1 wine glass of sherry wine, yolks of hard boiled eggs, or delicately flavored force meat balls.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

549Calories
35 gProtein
33 gFat
24 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Frazer, Mary Harris. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beef + carrottop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, butter, carrot, onion, egg, sherry, wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, butter, carrot, onion, egg, sherry, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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