Name: Beef Corn Soup
Ingredients: 1 soup bone; 6 ears of sweet corn, grated or slit and scraped; 6 ears of sweet corn, cut from the cob

Beef Corn Soup

Ingredients

1 soup bone
6 ears of sweet corn, grated or slit and scraped
6 ears of sweet corn, cut from the cob

Directions

Prepare

Put the soup bone in a pot early in the morning.
Grate or slit and scrape the kernels from 6 ears of sweet corn.
Cut the corn from the cob of 6 more ears.

Cook and serve

Add all the corn to the pot and boil for 30 minutes.
Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Soup bone: Simmering in water releases flavour and gelatin, giving the broth its beefy body.
Sweet corn: Adds natural sweetness, starch for body, and corn flavour to the broth.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.