What to eat and how to cook it Author:Pierre Blot Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOUPS. Soups are made with meat or vegetables, and' grease or bacon. Beef, mutton, veal and chicken are used to make soup or broth. The best pieces of beef... more » to make soup or broth are the ribs, shin or knuckle, and loin; the bones make a fat broth, but not as nutritious as good lean meat. One pound of meat for three persons is enough. Always use fresh meat; meat with a venison taste would spoil, if not entirely destroy the broth. The proportion, to make good broth, is about five pints of water for three pounds of meat. POT-ATJ-FEU. Take six pounds of fresh beef (ribs, knuckle or loin), which put in a crockery kettle with five quarts of cold water, salt, and a little pepper, set on a slow fire ; take the scum off carefully as soon as it comes to the surface; then add two white onions with one clove stuck in each, a small parsnip, a carrot, two middling sized turnips, half a head of celery, two leeks or four small ones, two sprigs of parsley, one of thyme, a clove of garlic, a bay leaf, and a little caramel to color it. Simmer five or six hours; dish the meat with the parsnips, turnips and leeks around, to be served warm after the soup, or kept for the next day. (See boiled beef.) Strain the broth, skim off the fat at the top, put back on a good fire, and at the first boiling, pouron croutons in the soup dish and serve. This broth -ma be kept till the next day, even in summer. CONSOMME. Take a chicken, at least two years old, clean and pre pare it as directed, place it on the spit before a good fin for about ten minutes, and take it off; put it in a crocken kettle, with about two pounds of beef, two quarts and a half of cold water, salt and a little pepper; set the kettle on a slow fire, and skim carefully ; season with one white onion and one clove stuck in it...« less