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CALF'S  HEAD  SOUP
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CALF'S HEAD SOUP

5 ingredients 6 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

225
Calories
8g
Protein
17g
Fat
11g
Carbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 4 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Water 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 to boil
  • a bunch of parsley
  • a small piece of butter boiling hot
  • two onions
  • three eggs hard

Directions

1

Take a calf's head ; wash and soak it for one hour.

2

Then put it down early in the morning with four

3

quarts of water to boil. When you can separate

4

the meat from the bones easily, take it up. Be care-

5

FAMILY RECEIPT BOOK. 133

6

ful to take out all the bones, and chop the meat very fine. Then put on your soup to boil again, ■with two onions, a bunch of parsley and thyme, sea- soned with pepper and salt, with a little flour made very smooth in water, allspice, cloves, and mace. Have ready a small piece of butter boiling hot, into ■which put white sugar andhalf a tumbler full of claret ■wine ; put this in a pitcher ; add as much of this as you wish ; when you first put on the soup (the quan- tity will depend upon the colour you wish the soup,) boil three eggs hard ; take the yolks and one of the whites, mash them up fine with a little flour; fry them a light brown. Keep the pan moving all the time. Before you put on the head take out the brains ; boil them for a few minutes. Then chop them up, and put them in with the eggs and half a tumbler full of Madeira wine, just before you dish the soup. A little mushroom catsup will improve this soup very much. Beef soup made in this way is very good-

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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