Chicken Gumbo Soup

Fry one chicken; remove the bones; chop fine; place in kettle, with two quarts of boiling water, three ears of corn, six tomatoes, sliced fine, twenty-four pods of okra; corn, tomatoes and okra to be fried a light brown in the gravy left from frying the chicken; then add to the kettle with water and chicken two tablespoonfuls of rice, pepper and salt; boil slowly one hour.

Macaroni Soup - Italian Style

Put four and one - half sticks of macaroni into a saucepan with one table-spoonfuls of butter and one onion. Boil until the macaroni is tender; when done drain and pour over it two quarts of good broth, beef, chicken or other kind. Place the pan on the fire to simmer for about ten minutes, watching lest it break or become pulpy. Add a little grated Parmesan cheese, and serve.

Ox-Tail Soup

One ox tail, two pounds lean beef, four carrots, three onions, parsley, thyme, pepper, and salt to taste, four quarts cold water. Cut tail into joints, fry brown in good drippings. Slice onions and 2 carrots and fry in the same, when you have taken out all of the pieces of tail. When done tie the thyme and parsley in lace bag, and drop into the soup-pot. Put in the tail, then the beef cut into strips. Grate over them two whole carrots, pour over all the water, and boil slowly four hours; strain and season; thicken with brown flour wet with cold water; boil fifteen minutes longer and serve.

Cream Of Celery Soup

In three pints of boiling water cook three cupfuls of celery, cut fine, until tender enough to be rubbed through a sieve. One pint of milk thickened with one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of Gold Medal Flour. Add celery salt, or extract, salt and pepper. Simmer ten minutes. A cupful of scalded cream added just before serving is an addition.

Split Pea Soup With Salt Pork

Wash a pint of split peas and cover with tepid water, adding a pinch of soda; let remain over night to swell. In the morning put them in a kettle with three quarts of cold water, adding half a pound of lean salt pork; a teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper. Cook gently for three hours, stirring occasionally till the peas are all dissolved, adding a little more boiling water to keep up the quantity as it boils away. Strain through a colander. Serve with small squares of toasted bread. If not rich enough, add a small piece of butter.

Bean Soup

Soak quart of white beans over night; in morning pour off water; add fresh, and set over fire until skins will come off; throw them into cold water, rub well, and skin will rise to top, where they may be removed. Boil beans till perfectly soft, allowing two quarts of water to one quart of beans; mash beans, add flour and butter, which have been rubbed together, also salt and pepper. Cut bread into small pieces, toast and drop on soup when you serve.

Oyster Soup

Two quarts of oysters, one quart of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one teacupful hot water; pepper and salt. Strain all the liquor from the oysters; add the water and heat. When near the boil, add the seasoning, then the oysters. Cook about five minutes from the time they begin to simmer, until they "ruffle." Stir in the butter, cook one minute and pour into the tureen. Stir in the boiling milk, and send to table.

Clam Soup

Boil juice of clams, make a little drawn butter and mix with the juice; stir until it boils, chop up clams and put them in; season to taste with pepper, salt and little lemon juice; cream or milk is to be added. Boil over slow fire about one hour.

Chicken Broth

Cut up a chicken into small pieces and put it in a deep earthen dish, adding a quart of cold water, and setting it over a boiling kettle. Cover closely and let it steam several hours until the meat of the chicken has become tender, after which strain off the broth and let it stand over night. Skim off the fat in the morning and pour the broth into a bowl. Into the dish in which the broth was made put one-third of a teacupful rice in a teacupful of cold water, and steam as before until the rice is soft; then pour in the broth and steam an hour or two longer.

Cream Tomato Soup

One can of tomatoes, quart of fresh, ripe tomatoes, one-half cup rice, two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of Gold Medal Flour. Peel and slice the tomatoes and put over the fire in a granite kettle, with one quart of cold water. Let them heat gradually and then add an additional quart of cold water. When this boils, put in the rice pepper and salt to taste, and continue the boiling until the rice is tender; then stir in Gold Medal Flour and butter, half tea-spoonful baking soda and one pint of milk. Boil for a few minutes and serve.