Australian Recipes - Great Tasting Vintage Recipes From Down Under
Who said Aussies don't have great culinary taste? Here are some great tasting and inexpensive to prepare hearty vintage Australian soup recipes that anyone can enjoy ...
VEGETABLE MARROW AND TOMATO SOUP
• 1 doz. Tomatoes -- 3d.
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• 1 Vegetable Marrow -- 2d.
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• 9 Onions
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• 1 oz. Butter
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• 2 doz. Peppercorns
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• 1 teaspoonful Sugar
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• 3 pints Stock
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• Salt -- 2d.
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• Total Cost -- 7d.
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• Time—One Hour.
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Peel the vegetable marrow, slice it up, and take out the seeds; slice up the tomatoes and put them, with the marrow, into the saucepan with the butter, sugar, salt, and peppercorns; sweat them for five minutes. Pour over the boiling water or stock, and simmer for one hour. Rub through a sieve and return to the saucepan. Add more salt, if necessary, bring it to the boil, pour into a tureen, and serve.
KIDNEY SOUP
• 1 Ox Kidney -- 4d.
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• 2 Onions -- 1/2d.
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• 1 oz. Butter -- 1d.
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• 1 oz. Cornflour -- 1/2d.
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• Salt, Lemon Juice, and parsley
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• 2 quarts Stock -- 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 6 ½ d.
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• Time—One Hour.
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Slice up the onions and fry them in the butter, strain them out and return the butter to the saucepan. Stir in the cornflour, and when well mixed pour over the stock and stir until it boils. Slice the kidney up into small pieces, and put it in; simmer very gently for one hour. Just before serving, season with salt and a little lemon juice; pour into a tureen and sprinkle a little chopped parsley on top.
This soup must be cooked very slowly, or the kidney will be hard and tough.
EGG SOUP
• 1 quart White Stock
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• 1 pint of Milk -- 2 1/2d.
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• 3 Yolks of Eggs -- 3d.
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• 1 oz. Sago -- 1/2d.
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• 1 Onion -- 1/2d.
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• Salt and Pepper -- 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 7d.
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• Time—Half an Hour
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Boil the sago, stock, and onion together till the sago is clear; then take out the onion and season the soup with salt and pepper.
Beat the yolks of the eggs in a basin, pour over the boiling milk, strain into the stock. Put over the fire and whisk till it comes to boiling point, but do not let it boil, or it may curdle. Pour into a tureen, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and send some fried bread to table with it.
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