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150 Method.—Prepare the vegetables and cut them into very small dice or cubes. Fry lightly in the butter, add a good pinch of castor sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Moisten with some of the consommé. Cook gently for about ½ an hour, skim, add the remainder of the consommé, and boil gently until the vegetables are tender. Soak the tapioca in tepid water, strain and put it in a stewpan with a little consommé, cook till tender, and mix it with the remainder of the soup a few minutes before sending to table, when a few drops of lemon juice should be added.

Time.—1½ hours. Average Cost, 2s. 6d. per quart. Sufficient for 6 persons.

Ingredients.—3 pints of clear soup (see Recipe 42 page 156), 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 turnip, ½ an oz. of butter, pepper and salt.

Method.—Prepare the vegetables and cut them into very small dice or cubes, melt the butter in a stewpan, put in the dice of vegetables with a little salt and pepper, and fry very gently for a few minutes, shaking and tossing them frequently to prevent them taking colour. Drain well to free them from butter, add them to the hot soup and simmer gently for 15 minutes. Skim well.

Time.—To prepare and cook the vegetables, ½ an hour. Average Cost, 3s. 6d. Seasonable at any time. Sufficient for 6 persons.

Ingredients.—1 old hen, 1½ lb. of knuckle of veal, 1½ lb. of shin of beef, salt, soup vegetables, 2 cloves, a few peppercorns, 1 oz. of butter, 1 glass of sherry.

Method.—Pluck and truss the fowl as for boiling, put the butter in a stewpan, and add the fowl whole as soon as the butter is hot; let it get a nice brown, then add the meat. Pour on about a gallon of water and set it to boil—it must come slowly to the boil, and remove the scum. Have the vegetables ready and well washed (they should include 1 onion stuck with 2 cloves, ½ a head of celery, 2 carrots, 1 leek, 2 small turnips, 1 bay-leaf, and a parsley root, and put them in the stock. Add a little salt and the peppercorns, simmer gently for about 4 hours, or longer; skim occasionally. The fowl may be taken