Turkey Soup

Place the remains of a cold turkey and what is left of the dressing and gravy in pot, and cover it with cold water. Simmer slowly four hours, and let stand until the next day. Take oft what fat may have arisen, and take out with a skimmer all the bits of bones. Put the soup on to heat until at boiling point, then thicken slightly with flour stirred into a cup of cream, and season to taste. Pick off all the meat from bones, put it back in the soup, boil up and serve.

Mock Turtle Soup

Take a calf's head, a knuckle of veal, a hock of ham, six potatoes sliced thin, three turnips, parsley and sweet marjoram chopped fine, and pepper. Forcemeat balls of veal and beef, half a pint of wine, one dozen egg balls, juice of a lemon. The calf's head must have had the brains removed, and must have been boiled previously till the meat slips off the bone. The broth must be saved, so as to use in the soup. Cut the head in small pieces after boiling. The veal and ham also must have been boiled and cut up, and all simmered for a couple of hours in the broth made by the calf's head. Now put all together. The forcemeat balls and egg balls should be added, and all boiled about ten minutes.

Vegetable Soup With Stock

Cut three onions, three turnips, one carrot and four potatoes. Put them into a stew-pan with two tablespoonfuls of butter and a teaspoonful of powdered sugar. After it has cooked ten minutes, add two quarts of stock, and when it comes to a boil put aside to simmer until the vegetables are tender - about one-half hour.

Chicken Soup

Time, four hours. Boil two chickens with great care, skimming constantly, and keeping them covered with water. When tender, take out the chickens and remove every bone from the meat; put a large piece of butter into a frying-pan and sprinkle the chicken meat well with flour, lay in the hot pan; fry a nice brown and keep it hot and dry. Take a pint of the chicken water and stir in two large spoonfuls of curry powder, two of butter and one of rice flour, one teaspoonful of salt and a little cayenne; mix it with the broth in the pot; when well mixed, simmer five minutes, then add the browned chicken. Serve with rice.

Chicken Broth

Cut up a chicken into small pieces and put it in a deep earthen dish, adding a quart of cold water, and setting it over a boiling kettle. Cover closely and let it steam several hours until the meat of the chicken has become tender, after which strain off the broth and let it stand over night. Skim off the fat in the morning and pour the broth into a bowl. Into the dish in which the broth was made put one-third of a teacupful rice in a teacupful of cold water, and steam as before until the rice is soft; then pour in the broth and steam an hour or two longer.

Chicken Gumbo Soup

Fry one chicken; remove the bones; chop fine; place in kettle, with two quarts of boiling water, three ears of corn, six tomatoes, sliced fine, twenty-four pods of okra; corn, tomatoes and okra to be fried a light brown in the grease left from frying the chicken; then add to the kettle with water and chicken two tablespoonfuls of rice, pepper and salt; boil slowly one hour.