MUTTON BROTH

Cut three pounds of neck of lamb or lean shoulder into small pieces; cover closely and boil with three quarts of water, slowly, for two hours; add two tablespoons well-washed rice to the boiling soup.  Cook an hour longer, slowly; watch carefully and stir from time to time.  Strain and thicken it with a little flour; salt and pepper to taste.  Particularly nice for invalids.

MULLIGATAWNY SOUP

Add to three quarts of liquor, in which fowls have been boiled, the following vegetables:  three onions, two carrots, and one head of celery cut in small dice.  Keep the kettle over a high heat until soup reaches the boiling point; then place where it will simmer for twenty-five minutes.  Add one tablespoon of curry powder, one tablespoon of flour mixed together; add to the hot soup and cook five minutes.  Pass through a sieve.  Serve with small pieces of chicken or veal cut in it.

FARINA SOUP

When the soup stock has been strained and every particle of fat removed, return it to the kettle to boil.  When it boils hard stir in carefully quarter of a cup of farina, do this slowly to prevent the farina from forming lumps.  Stir into the soup bowl the yolk of one egg, add a teaspoon of cold water.  Pour the soup into the bowl gradually and stir constantly until all has been poured into the bowl.  Serve at once.

GREEN KERN SOUP

Soak one-half cup of green kern in a bowl of water over night.  Put on two pounds of soup meat, add a carrot, an onion, a stalk of celery, a sprig of parsley, one or two tomatoes, a potato, in fact any vegetable you may happen to have at hand.  Cover up closely and let it boil slowly over a low heat three or four hours.  Put the green kern on to boil in water slightly salted, as it boils down keep adding soup stock from the kettle of soup on the stove, always straining through a hair sieve, until all has been used.  Serve as it is or strain through a colander and put pieces of toasted bread into the soup.

Another way of using the green kern is to grind it to a powder.

NOODLE SOUP

For six persons, select a piece of meat off the neck, about two and one-half pounds; add three quarts of water, an onion, one celery root, two carrots, a large potato, some parsley, three tomatoes and the giblets of poultry.  Cook in a closely covered kettle, letting the soup simmer for four or five hours.  Remove every bit of scum that rises.  Strain; add salt and remove every particle of fat; put in noodles; boil about five minutes and serve at once.  If allowed to stand it will become thick.

MUSHROOM AND BARLEY SOUP

Take one quart of hot bouillon, add a quarter pound barley which has been boiled in water; and one ounce of dried mushrooms which have been thoroughly washed and cut in pieces, an onion, carrot, bayleaf, parsley and dill.  Boil all these and when the vegetables are nearly tender, remove from soup, add the meat from the bouillon, cut up in small pieces, let soup come to a boil and serve.