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Modern Cookery for Private Families

by Eliza Acton

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Chapter I Soups

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Ingredients which may all be used for making Soup of various kinds 1
A few directions to the Cook 2
The time required for boiling down Soup or Stock 4
To thicken Soups 4
To fry Bread to serve with Soup 5
Sippets à la Reine 5
To make Nouilles (an elegant substitute for Vermicelli)5
Vegetable Vermicelli (Vegetables cut very fine for Soups)5
Extract of Beef, or very strong Beef Gravy-Soup (Baron Liebig’s receipt)6
Bouillon (the common Soup of France), cheap and very wholesome 7
Clear pale Gravy Soup, or Consommé 10
Another receipt for Gravy Soup 10
Cheap clear Gravy Soup 11
Glaze (Note)11
Vermicelli Soup (Potage au Vermicelle)12
Semoulina Soup (Soupe à la Semoule)12
Macaroni Soup 13
Soup of Soujee 13
Potage aux Nouilles, or Taillerine Soup 14
Sago Soup 14
Tapioca Soup 14
Rice Soup 14
White Rice Soup 15
Rice-Flour Soup 15
Stock for White-Soup 15
Mutton Stock for Soups 16
Mademoiselle Jenny Lind’s Soup 16
The Lord Mayor’s Soup 17
The Lord Mayor’s Soup (Author’s receipt)18
Cocoa-Nut Soup 19
Chestnut Soup 19
Jerusalem Artichoke, or Palestine Soup 19
Common Carrot Soup 20
A finer Carrot Soup 20
Common Turnip Soup 21
A quickly made Turnip Soup 21
Potato Soup 21
Apple Soup 21
Parsnep Soup 22
Another Parsnep Soup 22
Westerfield White Soup 22
A richer White Soup 23
Mock-Turtle Soup 23
Old-fashioned Mock-Turtle 26
Good Calf’s-Head Soup (not expensive)27
Soupe des Galles 28
Potage à la Reine (a delicate White Soup)29
White Oyster Soup (or Oyster Soup à la Reine)30
Rabbit Soup à la Reine 31
Brown Rabbit Soup 31
Superlative Hare Soup 32
A less expensive Hare Soup 32
Economical Turkey Soup 33
Pheasant Soup 33
Another Pheasant Soup 34
Partridge Soup 35
Mullagatawny 35
To boil Rice for Mullagatawny, or for Curries 36
Good Vegetable Mullagatawny 37
Cucumber Soup 38
Spring Soup, and Soup à la Julienne 38
An excellent Green Peas Soup 39
Green Peas Soup without meat 39
A cheap Green Peas Soup 40
Rich Peas Soup 41
Common Peas Soup 41
Peas Soup without meat 42
Ox-tail Soup 43
A cheap and good Stew Soup 43
Soup in haste 43
Veal or Mutton Broth 44
Milk Soup with Vermicelli (or with Rice, Semoulina, Sago, &c.)44
Cheap Rice Soup 44
Carrot Soup Maigre 45
Cheap Fish Soups 46
Buchanan Carrot Soup (excellent)46
Observation 47

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