Plain Beef Soup
Ingredients
- Five pounds of leg or shin of beef
- One gallon of water
- One teaspoon of salt
- Two heads of celery
- Five carrots
- Three onions
- Four turnips
- Two tomatoes
- A bunch of sweet herbs
Directions
- Cut meat in two or three pieces and place in a gallon of cold water
- Salt well while bringing to a boil, skim as soup heats.
- Boil slowly with a regular heat for about 4 hours
- Add two heads of celery, five carrots cut small, two tomatoes, three onions sliced and fried, and the sweet herbs tied in muslin
- Add turnips 30 minutes before serving
- If any portion of the meat is required for the table, remove from the soup 2 hours before serving.
- Strain soup through a hair sieve before serving.
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