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Scotch Mutton Broth

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 8

Serve with boiled turnips and mutton on a separate dish.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • Six pounds neck of mutton
  • three quarts water
  • five carrots
  • five turnips
  • two onions
  • four tablespoonfuls barley
  • a little salt

Method

  1. Soak mutton in water for an hour, then put it in a stewpan with three quarts of water.

  2. Skim when it boils, then simmer for one and a half hours.

  3. Add chopped carrots, turnips, and onions, and stir in barley.

  4. Let stew for three and a half hours, adding chopped parsley before serving.

Nutrition per serving

78Calories
2 gProtein
17 gCarbs
0 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SCOTCH MUTTON BROTH. Six pounds neck of mutton, three quarts water, five carrots, five tur- nips, two onions, four tablespoonfuls barley, a little salt

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