Rumford Soup

Take double the quantity of water you want to have soup; one pound of split peas, three carrots and turnips, or more if they are not large, and put it overnight to simmer by a slow fire; strain it next morning; add a quarter of a pound of rice, pepper, salt, celery, and any other vegetable you may have. Let them simmer on a slow fire till tender.

Soup For The Poor

One pound of beef, a quarter of a pound of rice or barley, two onions, five turnips, pepper, and salt; put all together into a gallon of water; when it has boiled for an hour, take out the beef and cut it in small pieces; add some potatoes, and boil an hour longer. It may also be thickened with meal, which makes it more nourishing.

A Nourishing Soup For The Poor

Take the liquor in which meat has been boiled the day before, with the bones of leg and shin of beef, and add as much water as will make thirty gallons; add also two ox heads, the meat of ten stone of leg and shin of beef, all cut in pieces; two bunches of carrots, four of turnips, two bunches of leeks, half a peck of onions, a bunch of celery, half a pound of pepper, and some salt; boil six hours, and thicken it with either barley or oatmeal. This can, of course, be made in smaller quantities. The estimated cost of the thirty gallons of soup, when the receipt was given to me, was as follows: -

Sago Milk For The Poor

Put a teacupful of sago into a quart of water, with a bit of lemon-peel; when thickened, add some grated ginger, half a pint of raisin or port wine, brown sugar, and two spoonfuls of geneva; boil all up together. To be given in cases of great weakness.

An Excellent Soup For The Poor

Put two cow-heels and a breast of mutton into a large pan, with four ounces of rice, an onion, a turnip, a carrot; twenty Jamaica and twenty black peppercorns, and a little salt; pour on it four gallons of water; cover the pan with brown paper, and bake in the oven six hours.