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Beef Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the lean meat from the shank.

  2. In a kettle, heat a little beef suet until hot.

  3. Add the meat and fry until nicely browned.

  4. Add the bones and cover with water.

  5. Cover the kettle tightly and cook slowly until the meat falls off the bones.

  6. Strain the soup through a colander.

  7. Let it sit overnight to allow the fat to rise and solidify.

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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