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light brown, then pour in some meat broth which has been made with celery,
parsley roots and onions, or else the strained broth of shelled green peas, let
the soup cook a little longer, pass through a sieve, shortly before serving
bring to boil again and serve with finely chopped parsely. Buttered toast cut
into small pieves is served in the soup.
If the broth has been prepared beforehand, this kind of soup can be gotten ready
in 1 hour.
For an ordinary fish soup the water in which fresh water fish have been cooked
will answer. This soup is best thickened with dried peas, cooked and strained;
strengthen with extract of beef.
26. Mock Turtle Soup. For 24-30 persons make a strong beef broth, taking 8-10
pounds of beef with the requisite soup herbs, onions, bay leaves, ground cloves
and 2-3 whole cloves. Put on the fire a large well cleaned calf's head, a pig's
jowl and ears, a nice beef bone and a smoked beef tongue; cook all together
until done, but it must not be too tender. After the meats are cold, cut them up
in small oblong pieces and also the tongue of the calf, which of course must be
well cleaned, put all in the broth with the addition o small sausages, a pingh
of cayenne pepper, several sweet breads (see A, No. 35), and enough of the
calf's head broth to make a sufficent quantity of soup, which should be
thickened with browned flour and butter.
After everything has cooked for 15 minutes, cook a number of veal meat balls in
some veal broth or salted water and add them to the soup, together with several
hard boiled eggs cut into small pieces, and also the brain of the calf which
must first be washed in water, scalded, the small veins taken out, then cooked
in water with a little vinegar, afterwards cut it into slices, turn in egg and
bread crumbs and bake in butter; furthermore, put into the soup some catsup and
if they can be obtained, 1/2 bottle of Madeira and some oystersl the latter two,
however, must not be cooked as long as the rest.
Then immediately serve the soup.
To make a very elegant mock-turtle soup small dumplings in imitation of turtle
eggs must be added. Take the yolks of 3 hard boiled eggs, grate them finely
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