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[underlined] Portable Soup Lady Napier [/underlined] Take 3 Stone of Houghs of Beef (that is the shin of beef) hack the flesh into small peices & break the bones, put it on the Fier with 17 Quarts of Water & a large Bunch of Sweet Herbs - Let it boil not too quick down to five or 6 Quarts then run it thro'a Jelly Bag, & Set it to cool - when it is quite a firm jelly, take all the fat from the Top & all the Sediment from the bottom, and boil it over a Slow Fier Stirring it constantly till it becomes as thick and dark coloured as Tar, then lift it out into soop plates dont fill them quite full, and let it stand day, after Day before a good Fire a week putting it to cool thro the night & turning it in the plates in the Morning before it gets softened by the Fire when quite firm & dry, put it in a dry place and when to be used take a 1/4 of a lb to every Quart of boiling water Desolve it, and before Sending itto Table, give it 5 or 6 minutes boiling - You may boil onion Cellery carrot & in the water before you pour it on the soop to disolve it & a Good deal of Salt as in the originial operation, you must not put Salt either in to the soop, or on the Beef otherwise, it would not Dry
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[underlined] Portable Soup Lady Napier [/underlined] Take 3 Stone of Houghs of Beef (that is the shin of beef) hack the flesh into small peices & break the bones, put it on the Fier with 17 Quarts of Water & a large Bunch of Sweet Herbs - Let it boil not too quick down to five or 6 Quarts then run it thro'a Jelly Bag, & Set it to cool - when it is quite a firm jelly, take all the fat from the Top & all the Sediment from the bottom, and boil it over a Slow Fier Stirring it constantly till it becomes as thick and dark coloured as Tar, then lift it out into soop plates dont fill them quite full, and let it stand day, after Day before a good Fire a week putting it to cool thro the night & turning it in the plates in the Morning before it gets softened by the Fire when quite firm & dry, put it in a dry place and when to be used take a 1/4 of a lb to every Quart of boiling water Desolve it, and before Sending itto Table, give it 5 or 6 minutes boiling - You may boil onion Cellery carrot & in the water before you pour it on the soop to disolve it & a Good deal of Salt as in the originial operation, you must not put Salt either in to the soop, or on the Beef otherwise, it would not Dry
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