BROWN SOUP -1

Take six pounds of the lean of fresh beef, cut from the bone.

Stick it over with four dozen cloves.

Season it with a tea-spoonful of salt, a tea-spoonful of pepper, a tea-spoonful of mace, and a beaten nutmeg.

Slice half a dozen onions; fry them in butter; chop them, and spread them over the meat after you have put it into the soup-pot.

Pour in five quarts of water, and stew it slowly for five or six hours; skimming it well.

When the meat has dissolved into shreds, strain it, and return the liquid to the pot.

Then add a tumbler and a half, or six wine glasses of claret or port wine.

Simmer it again slowly till dinner time.

When the soup is reduced to three quarts, it is done enough.

Put it into a tureen, and send it to table.