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A historical recipe from One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906).
A historical recipe
One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Project Gutenberg eBook #68235.
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Source and licence
From One hundred & one Mexican dishes, by Southworth, May E. (May Elizabeth) (1906). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #68235 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68235). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Mexico. Associated with Mexico by the book is about Mexican cookery (Cooking, Mexican); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.
- Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.
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Ingredients
- a pound of young lamb
- two quarts of water
- a cupful of green peas
- a teaspoonful of oil
Method
- Cut a pound of young lamb into small chunks and fry with a sliced onion in hot lard.
- When nicely browned add three peeled and sliced tomatoes and three green peppers chopped fine.
- Cover with two quarts of water and simmer slowly;
- add a cupful of green peas, one of green corn cut from the cob, a half-cupful of rice, salt and chile pepper.
- Work into a raw egg a teaspoonful of oil and a half-teaspoonful of vinegar;
- put this in the bottom of the soup-tureen and pour the soup over it.