Mrs Beetons Soups Revisited
Kale Brose
(A Scotch Recipe)
Half Ox Head or Cow Heel
3.4lt (6 pints) Water
175ml (6floz) Toasted Oatmeal
2 Handfuls Greens
Salt, to taste
Make a broth of the ox-head or cow heel and boil it until oil floats on the top of the liquor.
Boil the shredded greens, in it.
Add the oatmeal and a little salt, into a basin and mix quickly with 200ml (7floz) of the fat broth, it should not run into one doughy mass, but form knots.
Stir it into the soup, allow to boil and serve very hot.
Time: 4 hours.
Sufficient for 10 persons.
Seasonable all the year, but more suitable in winter.
KALE BROSE
(a Scotch Recipe)
132. INGREDIENTS - Half an ox-head or cow-heel, a teacupful of toasted oatmeal, salt to taste, 2 handfuls of greens, 3 quarts of water.
Mode - Make a broth of the ox-head or cow-heel, and boil it till oil floats on the top of the liquor, then boil the greens, shred, in it. Put the oatmeal, with a little salt, into a basin, and mix with it quickly a teacupful of the fat broth: it should not run into one doughy mass, but form knots. Stir it into the whole, give one boil, and serve very hot.
Time - 4 hours.
Average cost, 8d. per quart.
Seasonable all the year, but more suitable in winter.
Sufficient for 10 persons.
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