Soup Balls
Ingredients
Directions
Beat the drippings until creamy.
Add one egg at a time, mixing well.
Gradually stir in the finely rolled crackers until the mixture is mushy.
Roll the mixture into balls the size of a hickory nut.
When the soup is boiling hot, add the balls and let them boil for 10 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.
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