GRAVY Soup thickened with YELLOW PEAS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (9)

a shin of beef
six quarts of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a pint of peas ↝ Peas, green, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
six onions ↝ Onions, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
one quart of strong gravy ↝ Gravy, beef [Dips, gravies, other sauces]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
a little celery ↝ Celery, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
beet leaves ↝ Beets, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Instructions (7)

Put a shin of beef to six quarts of water, with a pint of peas and six onions.
Set them over the fire, and let them boil gently till all the juice be out of the meat.
Strain it through a sieve.
Add to the strained liquor one quart of strong gravy to make it brown.
Put in pepper and salt to your taste.
Put in a little celery, and beet leaves.
Boil it till they are tender.

Original Text

GRAVY Soup thickened with YELLOW PEAS.
PUT a shin of beef to six quarts of water,
with a pint of peas and six onions, set them
over the fire, and let them boil gently till all the
juice be out of the meat, then strain it through
a sieve, add to the strained liquor one quart of
strong gravy to make it brown, put in pepper
and salt to your taste, then put in a little celery,
and beet leaves, and boil it till they are tender.

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