Name: Fancy Macaroni Soup
Ingredients: fat from soup stock; 1 pint boiling water; 2 quarts broth; ½ cup fancy macaroni, cut into shapes; salt, to taste

Fancy Macaroni Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the broth

Take the fat from your soup stock and add 1 pint of boiling water.
Bring to a slow boil.
Strain the mixture through a colander.
Pour off 2 quarts of broth into a soup kettle and set over the fire to simmer.
Pulp the vegetables left in the colander and press the juice out of the meat into the broth.
Return this mixture to the stock pot.

Finish and serve

After 10 minutes of boiling and skimming, add ½ cup of fancy macaroni that has been boiled in salted water until tender.
Simmer for 1 minute.
Add seasoning if needed.
Serve.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Fancy macaroni: Adds bulk and starchy body, turning the broth into a more substantial soup.
Broth: Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor of the whole soup.

“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.