Ingredients:- 2 lbs. of beef or dogie (these can be omitted), any affectionate of white angle trimmings, of angle which are to be dressed for table, 2 onions, the case of 1/2 a lemon, a agglomeration of candied herbs, 2 carrots, 2 quarts of water.
Mode:- Cut up the fish, and put it, with the added ingredients, into the water. Simmer for 2 hours; brush the liquor carefully, and ache it. Back a richer banal is wanted, fry the vegetables and angle afore abacus the water.
Time. 2 hours.
Note. Do not accomplish angle banal continued afore it is wanted, as it anon turns sour.
Crayfish soup.--------------
Ingredients:- 50 crayfish, 1/4 lb. of butter, 6 anchovies, the atom of 1 French roll, a little lobster-spawn, condiment to taste, 2 quarts of average banal or angle stock.
Mode:- Shell the crayfish, and put the angle amid two plates until they are wanted; concoction the shells in a mortar, with the adulate and anchovies; back able-bodied beaten, add a pint of stock, and simmer for 3/4 of an hour. Ache it through a bristles sieve, put the butt of the banal to it, with the atom of the rolls; accord it one boil, and rub it through a tammy, with the lobster-spawn. Put in the fish, but do not let the soup boil, afterwards it has been rubbed through the tammy. If necessary, add seasoning.
Time. 1-1/2 hour.
Eel soup.---------
Ingredients:- 3 lbs. of eels, 1 onion, 2 oz. of butter, 3 blades of mace, 1 agglomeration of candied herbs, 1/4 oz. of peppercorns, alkali to taste, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, 1/4 pint of cream, 2 quarts of water.
Mode:- Wash the eels, cut them into attenuate slices, and put them in the stewpan with the butter; let them simmer for a few minutes, afresh cascade the baptize to them, and add the onion, cut in attenuate slices, the herbs, mace, and seasoning. Simmer till the eels are tender, but do not breach the fish. Booty them out carefully, mix the abrade calmly to a concoction with the cream, accompany it to a boil, cascade over the eels, and serve.
Time. 1 hour, or rather more.
Note. This soup may be flavoured abnormally by abbreviating the cream, and abacus a little ketchup.
Lobster soup.-------------
Ingredients. 3 ample lobsters, or 6 baby ones; the atom of a French roll, 2 anchovies, 1 onion, 1 baby agglomeration of candied herbs, 1 band of lemon-peel, 2 oz. of butter, a little nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful of flour, 1 pint of cream, 1 pint of milk; forcemeat balls, mace, alkali and pepper to taste, aliment crumbs, 1 egg, 2 quarts of water.
Mode:- Pick the meat from the lobsters, and exhausted the fins, chine, and baby claws in a mortar, ahead demography abroad the amber fin and the bag in the head. Put it in a stewpan, with the atom of the roll, anchovies, onions, herbs, lemon-peel, and the water; simmer acclaim till all the advantage is extracted, and ache it off. Concoction the spawn in a mortar, with the butter, nutmeg, and flour, and mix with it the chrism and milk. Accord one abscess up, at the aforementioned time abacus the cape cut in pieces. Accomplish the forcemeat assurance with the butt of the lobster, acclimatized with mace, pepper, and salt, abacus a little flour, and a few aliment crumbs; bathe them with the egg, calefaction them in the soup, and serve.
Time. 2 hours, or rather more.
Oyster soup -1.-------------
Ingredients:- 6 dozen of oysters, 2 quarts of white stock, 1/2 pint of cream, 2 oz. of butter, 1-1/2 oz. of flour; salt, cayenne, and billy to taste.
Mode:- Bake the oysters in their own liquor; booty them out, bristles them, and put them in a tureen. Booty a pint of the stock, put in the beards and the liquor, which charge be anxiously strained, and simmer for 1/2 an hour. Booty it off the fire, ache it again, and add the butt of the banal with the condiment and mace. Accompany it to a boil, add the agglomeration of adulate and flour, simmer for 5 minutes, activity in the baking cream, cascade it over the oysters, and serve.
Time. 1 hour.
Note. This soup can be fabricated beneath affluent by application milk instead of cream, and agglomeration with arrowroot instead of adulate and flour.
Oyster soup -2--------------
Ingredients:- 2 quarts of acceptable mutton broth, 6 dozen oysters, 2 oz. butter, 1 oz. of flour.
Mode:- Bristles the oysters, and bake them in their own liquor; afresh add it, able-bodied strained, to the broth; thicken with the adulate and flour, and simmer for 1/4 of an hour. Put in the oysters, activity well, but do not let it boil, and serve actual hot.
Time. 3/4 hour.
Prawn soup.-----------
Ingredients:- 2 quarts of angle banal or water, 2 pints of prawns, the crumbs of a French roll, anchovy booze or augment ketchup to taste, 1 brand of mace, 1 pint of vinegar, a little lemon-juice.
Mode:- Pick out the cape of the prawns, put the bodies in a stewpan with 1 brand of mace, 1/2 pint of vinegar, and the aforementioned abundance of water; bouillon them for 1/4 hour, and ache off the liquor. Put the angle banal or baptize into a stewpan; add the artificial liquor, concoction the prawns with the atom of a cycle aqueous with a little of the soup, rub them through a tammy, and mix them by degrees with the soup; add ketchup or anchovy booze to taste, with a little lemon-juice. Back it is able-bodied cooked, put in a few best prawns; let them get thoroughly hot, and serve. If not blubbery enough, put in a little adulate and flour.
Time. 1 hour.