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Plain Calf's Head Soup

From The new home cook book, 1896

Serves 8

Start boiling early for a one o'clock dinner.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • a calf's head well cleaned
  • a knuckle of veal
  • one onion
  • about four quarts of water
  • four eggs
  • one lemon

Method

  1. Put cleaned calf's head and knuckle of veal in kettle with onion and water; boil steadily; strain and chop meat; return to soup; boil eggs, chop, and add with sliced lemon before serving.

Nutrition per serving

45Calories
4 gProtein
2 gCarbs
3 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAII^ CALF'S HEAD SOUP. Mrs. F. D. J. Take a calf's head well cleaned, a knuckle of veal and put them both into a large kettle; put one onion and a large tablespoon of sweet herbs, into a cloth and into the kettle, with the meat over which you have poured about four quarts of water. If you wish the soup for a one o'clock dinner, put the meat over to boil as early as eight o'clock in the morning; let it boil steadily and slowly and season well with salt and pepper. About one hour before serving, take off the soup and pour it through a colander, pick out all the meat carefully, chop very fine and return to the soup, putting it again over the fire. Boil four eggs vei-y hard, chop them fine, and slice one lemon

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