Hearty Winter Soup

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Time: Cook: 195 min Total: 195 min
Yield: 8.0 persons
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (9)

1/2 lb. of beef, mutton, or pork ↝ Beef, ground, raw [Ground beef]
1/2 pint of split peas ↝ Soup, split pea [Soups, broth-based]
4 turnips ↝ Turnips, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
8 potatoes ↝ Potatoes, raw, skin [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
2 onions ↝ Onions, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
2 oz. of oatmeal or 3 oz. of rice ↝ Oatmeal, NFS [Oatmeal]
3 oz. of rice ↝ Rice, cooked, NFS [Rice]
2 quarts of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
pepper and salt ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]

Instructions (3)

Cut the meat in small pieces, as also the vegetables, and add them, with the peas, to the water.
Boil gently for 3 hours.
Thicken with the oatmeal, boil for another 1/4 hour, stirring all the time, and season with pepper and salt.

Original Text

II.

187. INGREDIENTS.—1/2 lb. of beef, mutton, or pork; 1/2 pint of split peas, 4 turnips, 8 potatoes, 2 onions, 2 oz. of oatmeal or 3 oz. of rice, 2 quarts of water.

Mode.—Cut the meat in small pieces, as also the vegetables, and add them, with the peas, to the water. Boil gently for 3 hours; thicken with the oatmeal, boil for another 1/4 hour, stirring all the time, and season with pepper and salt.

Time.—3-1/4 hours. Average cost, 4d. per quart.

Seasonable in winter.

Sufficient for 8 persons.

Note.—This soup may be made of the liquor in which tripe has been boiled, by adding vegetables, seasoning, rice, &c.

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