Ox-tail Soup

Ingredients

• Bunch of soup herbs
• ½ slice of salt pork
• 1 stick of celery or 1 teaspoon of celery seed
• 4 quarts of boiling water
• Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. Cut the oxtails at the joints into 2-inch pieces.

2. Slice the vegetables and mince the pork.

3. In a stewpan, heat the pork until hot, then add the onion.

4. Fry until the onion begins to color, then add the oxtails.

5. Fry the oxtails for 5 to 8 minutes, browning on all sides.

6. Cut each joint to the bone to allow the juice to escape while boiling.

7. Transfer everything to a soup kettle and add the boiling water.

8. Simmer gently for about 4 hours.

9. Add the other vegetables and cloves stuck into a piece of onion.

10. Season to taste.

11. Once the vegetables are cooked, strain the soup through a fine strainer.

12. Serve 1 joint and 2 cups of soup for each person.