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Soups and Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bean Soup.

  2. 1 qt. beans 2 lbs. fresh beef

  3. ^4 lb. salt pork 2 onions

  4. Soak the beans over night and boil until soft in four or more quarts of water. Cut salt pork and onions fine. Boil two hours, strain and boil for five minutes longer.

  5. Buttermilk Soup.

  6. 1 qt. buttermilk 2 eggs

  7. 2 T. flour Nutmeg Pinch of salt 1 T. sugar 1 T. sugar

  8. Add the flour (moistened with a little cold water) and the salt to the buttermilk. Put on slow fire, bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Take from fire, add the sugar, yolks of the eggs, and a little grated nutmeg. Beat the whites of eggs, add the sugar. Put on top of soup. Serve hot with toast.

  9. Cream of Tomato Soup.

  10. 1 pt. tomato 4 T. butter

  11. 1 qt. hot milk 1 slice onion

  12. 2 t. salt 4 T. flour

  13. Heat milk and onion, then remove onion. Melt butter, add flour and, when well mixed, add milk gradually. Then cook until slightly thickened. Add strained tomato, season and serve.

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  20. Cream of Celery Soup.

  21. 1 T. flour j/4 t. salt

  22. 2 T. butter Spk pepper 1 c. milk

  23. Wash celery, cut into small pieces, and boil it until it is soft in just enough boiling water to cover it. Press it through a strainer, saving and using the water in which celery was cooked. Scald the milk. Mix the flour with a little cold milk and smoothen out all lumps. Add the flour mixture to the hot milk, stirring constantly. Boil it about five minutes. Add the salt, pepper, and butter. Then add the celery and water.

  24. Mixed Vegetable Soup.

  25. 1 qt. stock Yz c. chopped cabbage

  26. 1 at. boiling water 1 c. strained tomatoes

  27. 1 c. chopped onions 1 t. sugar

  28. 1 c. chopped carrots 1 t. salt

  29. 1 c. chopped celery 1 ssp. pepper

  30. y2 c. chopped turnip 1 T. chopped parsley

  31. y2 c. chopped parsnip

  32. Use all or as many varieties of vegetables as you wish. If you have only a few, add macaroni, rice or barley, having one- half the amount of vegetables that you have of liquid. Chop all the vegetables fine. Cabbage, cauliflower, parsnip, pota- toes or onions should be parboiled five minutes and drained carefully. Fry the onions and carrots, then put all with the water and stock and simmer until tender. Add seasoning and serve without straining. Always add sugar to all mixed vegetable soups.

  33. Oyster Soup.

  34. 1 qt. milk Pepper and salt

  35. 1 qt. water Butter

  36. 1 qt. oysters

  37. Let the milk and water come to a boil. Season with pep- per and salt to taste. Look over oysters carefully and add to the mixture. Let them boil up once. Then add a little rolled cracker and butter, the size of an egg. Serve at once.

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  52. Puree of Carrots. 3 large carrots 2 oz. suet

  53. 2 qts. cold water 2 T. cornstarch

  54. Good sized onion l/2 pt. milk or stock

  55. Scrape and cut the carrots into slices. Cover with the cold water and simmer gently three-fourths of an hour. Put the suet or butter into a frying pan. When hot, add a good sized onion, sliced. Cook until a light brown, and then add the carrots. Press the whole through a fine sieve. Return to the fire and stir in the cornstarch, moistened in a little cold water. Add salt, pepper and the milk or stock. This is a good soup, and very inexpensive.

  56. Rice Soup.

  57. 1 small c. rice 2 stalks celery

  58. 1 qt. milk 1 qt. stock

  59. Boil the rice in the milk until it will pass very easily through a sieve. Grate the nicely bleached part of the celery and add to the rice. Add to this one quart of stock. Let this Jjoil until the celery is done. Season with a dash of cayenne pepper or a little curry powder, and plenty of salt.

  60. Marrow Balls.

  61. Take butter the size of an Qgg and the same amount of marrow (or all marrow, if preferred). Stir to a cream and add two well beaten eggs and season with salt, pepper, nut- meg, a few drops of onion juice, and a little chopped parsley. Mix well and add some cracker crumbs. Roll into little balls and drop into boiling soup for about twenty minutes.

  62. Potato Dumplings.

  63. y2 c. farina A pinch grated nutmeg

  64. Boil the potatoes with their jackets the day before. Next day, grate them and add two well beaten eggs, farina, flour, salt and the grated nutmeg. Shape into small balls about the size of an egg and boil in salted water twenty minutes. Use one teaspoon salt to one quart of water. Drain and serve hot. They are good with a cup of toasted cubes of bread added to the potatoes. If onions are desired, serve with finely chopped onions, delicately browned in butter.

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  76. Rice Dumplings. 2 c. boiled rice 1 T. salt

  77. 1 v. riced potatoes \l/2 c. flour

  78. Work all well together, then drop in boiling water. Let boil until they are light.

  79. Schwaben Spaetzle. 1 egg Pinch of salt

  80. 3 T. milk J/2 c. sifted flour

  81. Beat the egg with the milk and add the salt and stir into sifted flour. Pour this through a small funnel into soup or salted water. Serve with brown butter and a few bread crumbs in it and use for a garnish for meat.

  82. Tomato Soup With Meat Dumplings. To 1 can of Campbell's Tomato Soup add 2 to 3 qts. of hot water, some finely chopped onions, parsely, celery, and if liked sliced carrots. Salt to taste. Let boil one-half hour. Meanwhile prepare dumplings. To 1-1^4 lbs. chopped beef add 1 beaten egg, 1 finely chopped onion, 1 t. chopped parsley, salt and pepper; add enough flour mixed with y2 t. baking powder to hold mixture together. Drop into boiling soup and boil one-half hour. Serve immediately.

  83. Hungarian Stew. Put a piece of butter, half the size of an egg, in a kettle and add a sliced onion; let it brown, then put in about 2 pounds of good round steak cut into pieces half an inch square, sea- son with salt, pepper and a pinch of cayenne, dredge well with flour. Let it brown together, then add boiling water a little at a time until meat is tender. The gravy must be a rich brown. Serve with baking powder dumplings.

  84. Baking Powder Dumplings. 3 cups flour 2 t. baking powder

  85. Mix flour, salt and baking powder, and then beat in the eggs and milk to smooth paste. Put in boiling water or soups and boil about 15 minutes. Serve immediately. These dump- lings are very light and if let stand any length of time will get soggy.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1509Calories
65 gProtein
43 gFat
212 gCarbs

Counts 16 of 19 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 16 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Dumplingnot 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 Milwaukee. Luther chapel. Ladies' aid society. [from old catalog]. 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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, flour, milk, pepper, bread, potato, butter):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, flour, milk, pepper, bread, potato, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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