Name: On Stock, and Clear Soups
Ingredients: 1 shin of beef; bones; coarse sea salt; soft water

On Stock, and Clear Soups

Ingredients

1 shin of beef
bones
coarse sea salt
soft water

Directions

Ensure your saucepan is thoroughly clean by scalding it with hot water mixed with a lump of washing soda.
Use soft water instead of hard water.
Place the fresh soup meat and broken bones into cold water along with the salt.

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.