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double the quantity of potatoes cut into pieces, salt, pass through a strainer,
add a small piece of butter and little extract of beef and season with a small
bunch of a chopped celery. Both kinds of soup are served with toasted bread.
Time of cooking 1 1/2 hours.
53. Hotch Potch or Scotch Soup. This very wholesome, nutritious and palatable
soup is a favorite Scotch dish for the ordinary table. Although generally made
from mutton and vegetables of all kinds, yet it is also very good when made with
beef or veal, or fresh pickled pork.
In the Summer take for about 8 persons, 2 pounds of mutton from the shoulder,
the neck or the ribs, 2 quarts of shelled green peas, not too young, 1 pint of
large beans, 1-2 cauliflowerheads cut up fine, 1 quart of fresh kohlrabi cut
into cubes, 1 quart of carrots also cut up, 1 head of cabbage, 1-2 heads of
curled (savoy) cabbage cut into fine shreds, 1 dozen chopped white onions and a
handful of purslane and celery leaves.
Cook the meat 2 hours in 2 quarts of water, then gradually add the above-named
vegetables, putting in the cauliflower last; salt, and let the soup cook 2 hours
longer until everything is nice and tender. The meat can be separated from the
bones and served in the soup, or it may be brought to the table after the soup
with the potatoes , butter and parsley or a gravy.
This soup can also be cooked as Scotch broth by making it thinner and chopping
the vegetables as finely as possible and adding some salsify. If it is not to be
the principal dish at dinner, cook the vegetable soup with a mild beef broth
strengthened with a little extract of beef, and omit the meat. In the Fall and
in the Winter enough of this soup can be cooked to last for several days.
In the Winter, take instead of the peas 1/2 pound of coarse groats, let them
stand over night covered with water, and then cook with the meat and such
vegetables as are obtainable.
54. Soup a l'aurore. Peel and scrape 3 carrots, 3 potatoes and 3 onions, cut
into thin slices, add a few small celery leaves and cook together in 2 quarts of
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