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Soups

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Soups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Ensure the cooking vessel is perfectly clean.

  2. Wash the meat and prepare the vegetables carefully.

  3. Keep the vessel tightly closed while cooking.

  4. Do not let the soup sit; strain it into a clean pan immediately.

  5. Fill the stock-pot with water right after emptying.

  6. Skim the soup thoroughly when it begins to boil.

  7. Add salt to help bring scum to the surface and remove it.

  8. Add herbs and vegetables after skimming to enhance flavor.

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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