The Family Save-All, a System of Secondary Cookery - Robert Kemp Philp

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: /4 very . Economical and Agreeable Soup of Lentils. Take one pint of Lentils, soak them in cold water; add six middle-sized onions; two heads of celery; two . p.. carrots; one turnip; one quart of pot liquor from boiled Beef, Mutton, or Pork, and one quart of water. Stew the whole slowly, as green peas for soup; pour it all into a mortar, and pound it well; or, use lentil powder, as sold prepared; strain through a tammy or sieve, and add one tablespoonful of powdered lump sugar. Oiie pint of lentils will make enough soup for seven persons. The poorer a man is. the more he pays for what he uses -- as Franklin very justly observed, necessity never made a good bargain. The smaller the quantity we purchase, the larger the profit charged for it. Capital Soup from Goose or Duck Giblets. The Giblets of two Ducks may be reckoned as equal to those of one Goose. Cleanse the Giblets, and parboil them; ., take the skin off the feet, and crack the bones of JuUt the legs; cut the gizzards into quarters, the neck into three pieces; the feet, livers, and pinions into two, and the head also into two, throwing away the bill. Boil them (i. e. two sets of Goose Giblets, or four sets of Ducks, ) in a quart of weak gravy soup, with an onion. Have ready boiling some rich highly seasoned brown gravy soup; add the giblets, and the liquor they have been boiled in, with some chopped parsley; take out the onion, and thicken the soup with a bit of butter kneaded in flour. 395 ggT Or, one set of Goose, or two of Duck Giblets will make a quart of healthful nourishing soup. If a larger quantity is desired, and the...