American

Turkish Soup

A historical lunch recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 5 cups Brown Soup Stock
  • ¼ cup Rice
  • 1½ cups Stewed and Strained Tomatoes
  • As needed Bit of Bay Leaf
  • 2 slices Onion
  • 10 Peppercorns
  • ¼ teaspoon Celery Salt
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • 1½ tablespoons Flour

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Cook rice in Brown Stock until soft. Cook bay leaf, onion, peppercorns, and celery salt with tomatoes thirty minutes. Combine mixtures, rub through sieve, and bind with butter and flour cooked together. Season with salt and pepper if needed.

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Where this recipe comes from

Turkish Soup, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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