BROWN MACARONI SOUP
Take 1 1/2 oz. Macaroni, 1 oz. Butter, Vegetables, Corn flour and 2 quarts Bone Stock. Slice up the onions or leeks, one carrot, and make a fagot of herbs; fry them in the butter with 1 dozen peppercorns till they are quite brown, but not burnt. Sprinkle over a tablespoonful of corn flour, and when brown pour over the boiling stock and stir till it boils up; let it simmer for an hour. If it is not brown enough, burn a little sugar in a spoon and stir it in. If half a teaspoonful of sugar is sprinkled over the vegetables when they are frying they will brown much quicker. When the vegetables are soft rub the soup through a wire sieve and return to the saucepan. Boil the macaroni in salt and water for twenty minutes, strain off, and cut into pieces one inch long; put these into the soup and simmer for a quarter of an hour. Flavor with a little salt and pepper if necessary, and pour into a hot tureen.
BREAD SOUP -1.
1/2 lb. of stale crusts of Allinson wholemeal bread, 4 onions, 2 turnips, 1 stick of celery, 1 oz. of butter, 1/2 oz. of finely chopped parsley, 8 pints of water, 1/2 pint of milk. Soak the crusts in the water for 2 hours before they are put over the fire. Cut up into small dice the vegetables; add them to the bread with the butter and pepper and salt to taste. Allow all to simmer gently for 1 hour, then rub the soup through a sieve, return it to the saucepan, add the milk and parsley, and, if the flavor is liked, a little grated nutmeg; boil the soup up and serve at once.
BREAD SOUP -2.
1 slice of bread, 1
small finely chopped onion fried brown, a pinch of nutmeg, pepper and salt to
taste. Boil the bread in 3/4 pint of water and milk in equal parts, adding the
onion and seasoning. When the bread is quite tender, rub all through a sieve,
return soup to the saucepan, boil up, and serve.