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The art of cookery

1899

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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Veal Broth. — To four cups of veal broth add one cup of cooked riceVeal Broth, vermicelli, or noodles with one table- spoonful of minced parsley. Simmer five minutes, season to taste, and serve. CLASS 2. — CLEAR SOUP. Clear soup is made from stock clarified and enriched in color and flavor. The clarifying process removes much of the flavor and nutrition from the stock, hence it is necessary to enrich it by the addition of meat juices and flavoring extracts. Clear soup should be served in cups, bowls, or soup-plates, as a clear liquid. no The Art of Cookery. with transparent thickening, poached eggs, dainty dumphngs, or ornamental vegetables. But nothing should be served in it that will injure its clearness. Clear Soup. — To four cups of simple or compound stock add one cup of lean raw beef cut in dice or small pieces, one ^^^ beaten with one cup of cold water, and one tablespoonful of meat caramelClear Soup. Mix all well together in a sauce-pan, bring slowly to boiling point, and simmer half an hour. Strain through several folds of cheese-cloth, season to taste, and serve. Clear Soup with Curry. — To four cups of clarified stock add a teaspoonful of curry powderClear Soup with Curry, simmer five minutes, season to taste, and serve. Great care should be taken in the use of curry pow- der, as it is a combination of various herbs and spices, among which pepper is quite prominent. Clear Soup with Tapioca. — To four cups of clear soup add one cup of pearled tapioca cooked in salted water until transparentClear Soup with Tapioca, simmer five minutes, and serve. Clear Soup with Poached Eggs. — Heat the clarified soup to boiling point. Put a neatly-trimmed poached ^^^ in each soup-plateClear Soup with Poached Eggs, and serve a ladleful of soup upon it. Clear Soup with Dainty Dumplings. — Bring the clarified soup to boiling point and drop the dumplings into it, one at a timeClear Soup with Dainty Dumplings, in quick succession. As soon as they rise to the surface they are cooked and the soup should be served at once. Clear Soup with Sliced Lemon. — Slice a lemon cross- wise, in very thin sliceClear Soup with Sliced Lemons, and serve one slice in each plate of soup. Soup- Making. 1 1 1 Clear Soup with Mixed Flavoring. — Mix together a tablespoonful of lemon juice, a teaspoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of lemon peel, a quarter of a tea- spoonful of grated nutmeg, and ten drops extract of ginger. Add to a quart of soup stock before clarify- ing Clear Soup with Mixed Flavoringit. This flavoring is recommended to those who think wine indispensable in clear soup. Clear Soup with Fancy Vegetables. — To four cups of clear soup add one cup of fresh vegetables, cooked in salted water — composed of about equal portions of carrot, onion, celery, turnip, and string beans, cut in dice, diamonds, or long thin strips — half a cup of cooked green peas, and a tablespoonful of minced pars- leClear Soup with Fancy Vegetablesy. Simmer five minutes, season to taste, and serve. Macedoine vegetables are mixed vegetables prepared and canned expressly for use in soups. They are con- venient and excellent. CLASS 3. — VEGETABLE SOUPS. Vegetable soups are made by adding vegetables to either a plain broth, a clear soup, or a vegetable stock. But when only a single vegetable is used in the prepara- tion of a soup the soup is generally given the name of that vegetable, as corn soup, pea soup, bean soup, etc., and when a variety of vegetables is cooked with, or added to, a stock of any kind the soup is known simply as vegetable soup. v Corn Soup