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Thin Soups or Broths


Kind

Main ingredients

Flavouring

Foundation

Seasoning

Thickening

Time

Special Preparation

Chicken
1 boiling fowl 1 onion, I stick celery or ½ tsp Celery salt 2.4L water 2 tsp Salt, dash of pepper 2 Tbsp. barley 2-3 hours Clean and truss fowl. Cut into joints or cook whole. If carcase is used, break it up.

Rabbit
1 Rabbit 1 onion, I stick celery or ½ tsp Celery salt 2.4L water 2 tsp Salt, dash of pepper 2 Tbsp. barley 2-3 hours Joint the rabbit and soak in salted water for about 5 mins.

Mutton
450g scrag or knuckle of mutton. 1 carrot1 turnip

1 onion

1 leek

1 tsp chopped parsley

1.2L water or stock 1 tsp Saltshake of pepper 1 tbsp. barley 2 hrs Cut meat into joints or leave whole.

Scotch
450g middle neck of mutton or 450g gravy or shin beef. 1 carrot1 turnip

1 onion

1 leek

1 tsp chopped parsley

1.2L water or stock 1 tsp Saltshake of pepper 1 tbsp. barley Mutton 2 hrs.Beef 2 ½ - 3 hrs.

Sheep’s head
1 sheep’s head 225g mixed vegetables, 1 dessertsp Chopped parsley 2.4-3.6L water, according to size. 1 tsp Salt and shake of pepper to each L. 1 tbsp. Barley to 1L 3-4 hrs. 1.Split head and remove brains.2. Soak head in cold, salted water.

3. Clean nostrils and teeth with salt.

4. Blanch the head.

5. Rinse thoroughly.


Cow Heel
1 cow heel 225g mixed vegetables, 1 dessertsp Chopped parsley 1.2L stock 1 tsp Salt and shake of pepper to each L. 1 tbsp. Barley to 1L 1½ - 2hrs. Blanch the cow heel.

Vegetable
450g mixed vegetables. Bunch herbs 1.2L stock 1 tsp Salt and shake of pepper to each L. 1 tbsp. Barley to 1L 1½ - 2hrs Dice or grate the vegetables.