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Italian Paste Soup

A historical recipe from The Dinner Year-Book, by Marion Harland (1883).

A historical recipe

The Dinner Year-Book, by Marion Harland (1883). Project Gutenberg eBook #49958.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The Dinner Year-Book, by Marion Harland (1883). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #49958 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49958). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Italy. Associated with Italy by a demonym leading its title: Italian (confidence 0.55). "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.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Take the fat from your cold soup-stock;
  2. pour off from the sediment;
  3. boil and skim, adding a tablespoonful of walnut or mushroom catsup.
  4. When the scum ceases to rise, put in a quarter of a pound of Italian paste—i.
  5. e., something like macaroni cut into small figures, letters, stars, and the like.
  6. Simmer twenty minutes and pour out.