Plain Beef Soup
Ingredients
- 5 pounds leg or shin of beef
- 1 gallon cold water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 heads celery
- 5 carrots, cut small
- 3 onions, sliced and fried
- 4 turnips
- 2 tomatoes
- bunch of sweet herbs
Directions
- Cut meat into 2 or 3 pieces and place in a large pot.
- Add cold water and salt to pot. Stir continuously and slowly heat to boiling.
- Boil slowly with regular heat for about 4 hours.
- While this is boiling, cut carrots and slice and fry onions.
- After four hours, add celery, carrots, tomatoes, onions, and sweet herbs tied up in muslin.
- Add turnips 30 minutes before serving.
- If any portion of the meat is required for the table, take it from the soup about 2 hours before dinner, and let the remainder be left in the soup. This must be strained through a hair sieve before it is served.
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