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. | |
Sheeps head |
1 sheeps 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. |

