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TO BOIL POTATOES
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TO BOIL POTATOES

10 ingredients 7 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

22
Calories
1g
Protein
0g
Fat
5g
Carbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0
Soup not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • four quarts of water
  • three quarts when done
  • a cupful of tomato
  • a spoonful of salt
  • half off
  • 43 soups
  • half cents
  • one quart
  • 44 mbs
  • salt

Directions

1

Peal them, — two or three hours before time to cook them, — lay them into cold water ; wash them out, put them into boil- ing water, boil half an hour after they begin ; turn the water off, sprinkle a little salt over them, leave the cover of the pot half off, let them stand and dry about five minutes.

2

PRIMARY COOK BOOK. 43

3

In winter you can save all the bones and bits of meat, and put them to boil once a week. Put in an onion, a carrot, and a turnip, boil it five or six hours ; strain it, add a cupful of tomato, a little sugar, thick- en it with a little ground rice.

4

In the spring you can buy a shin of veal for twelve and a half cents, it will make soup for two or three days.

5

Take a good sized shin, put it into four quarts of water, and a spoonful of salt ; let it boil six hours, add more water if it boils away ; have three quarts when done, and strain this into an earthen pot or pitcher. The next day take off the fat ; take one quart, put it into a saucepan, cut up a small onion, a carrot, and a turnip, into small pieces about the size of dice ; put them into the soup, let it simmer until the

6

44 MBS. PUTNAM'S

7

vegetables are done, about an hour. This is white vegetable soup.

By E. Putnam · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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