Mrs Beetons Soups Revisited
Baked Soup
4.55lt (8 pints) Water
600ml (1 pint) Split Peas
450g (1lb) Meat of any kind, any Trimmings or odd pieces
2 Onions
2 Carrots
50g (2oz) Rice
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Cut the meat and slice the vegetables, add to the rice and peas, season with salt and pepper.
Put into a jar, fill up with water, cover very closely and bake for 4 hours.
Time: 4 hours.
Sufficient for 10 or 12 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
Note: This will be found a very cheap and wholesome soup and will be convenient in those cases where baking is more easily performed than boiling.
BAKED SOUP
115. INGREDIENTS - 1 lb. of any kind of meat, any trimmings or odd pieces; 2 onions, 2 carrots, 2 oz. of rice, 1 pint of split peas, pepper and salt to taste, 4 quarts of water.
Mode - Cut the meat and vegetables in slices, add to them the rice and peas, season with pepper and salt. Put the whole in a jar, fill up with the water, cover very closely, and bake for 4 hours.
Time - 4 hours.
Average cost per quart, 2-1/2d.
Seasonable at any time.
Sufficient for 10 or 12 persons.
Note - This will be found a very cheap and wholesome soup, and will be convenient in those cases where baking is more easily performed than boiling.
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