"A soup boiled is a soup spoiled."

How To Make Croutons To Serve With Soup

Take stale light-bread, slice rather thickly, cut off the crusts, take a sharp knife and cut the bread in squares about 3/4 of an inch each way, or 1 inch long and 1/2 inch wide; put into the stove-pan and brown quickly; send on with the soup in a fancy dish on fringed napkins. Put 4 or 5 into each soup-plate before serving.

How To Make Brunswick Stew

Water - Quarts, 5

Bacon - Slices, 4

Onion 1

Peeled Tomatoes - Quarts, 2

Corn - Ears, 4 or 5

Large Potatoes, 5

Butter Beans - Pint, 1/2

Young Chickens, 2

Bread Crumbs, sifted.

Salt and Pepper.

Walnut Catsup, Worcestershire Sauce or Pepper Sauce.

About 4 hours before dinner put into the soup-pot the water, bacon and sliced onion; let the water boil for an hour, then put in the tomatoes, the corn cut from the cob, the potatoes cut up and the butter beans; let it come to a boil again and add the chickens cut into pieces. Suffer it to cook until the chicken drops from the bone; take out the bones and skin; thicken with the bread crumbs; then season with the salt, pepper and catsup or sauce. VIRGINIA.

How To Make Tomato Puree

Tomatoes - Quart cans, ..................................1

Milk - Pints, .....................................................1

Butter - Pound, ............................................1/4

Cloves - Dozen, ............................................1/2

Sugar - Teaspoonfuls, .....................................1

Add salt, spoon of soda dissolved in water just before taking off.

Heat the tomatoes and strain through a sieve; then add the milk and seasoning and boil 10 minutes. Cut lightbread in 1/4-inch squares, brown them in a little lard, and drop in the soup just before serving. Mrs. J. M. Heck

How To Make Consomme

Amount of Beef desired.

Cold Water - Quarts, .....................................1

Salt to 1 quart - Teaspoonfuls,.......................1

Carrot, ...........................................................1

Turnip, pared, ...............................................1

Onion, ............................................................1

Cloves, ...........................................................3

Parsley.

Egg, ...............................................................1

To every pound of beef and bone put 1 quart of cold water; skim carefully as it comes to a boil and add salt. One hour before it is done add the carrot, turnip, and onion, stuffed with the 3 cloves, and a little parsley. Clarify it with the white and shell of an egg mixed with a little cold water and some of the hot soup; boil together 15 minutes; skim and strain until clear.

How To Make Mock Turtle Soup

Beef Shank,...............................................1

Water - Gallons, .......................................2

Beefsteak - Pound, ...................................1

Pepper, Salt and Onions.

Thyme - Bunch, ........................................1

Black Pepper.

Cloves,.............................................. 2 or 3

A few Allspices.

Eggs (hard boiled),..............................12

Brown Flour.

Wine to taste.

Put beef shank on at sunrise with the water, let cook gently until nearly time to serve. In the meantime chop the beefsteak as fine as for sausage-meat; make into balls; after seasoning with pepper, salt and onion fry; throw into the soup, add the bunch of thyme, with plenty of black pepper, the cloves and allspice; chop up the eggs, stir in soup, thicken with the brown flour, add wine to taste and serve very hot.

MRS. EDWARD WARE (Georgia).