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Spanish Soup

A historical recipe from Fifty-two Sunday dinners, by Elizabeth O. Hiller (1913).

A historical recipe

Fifty-two Sunday dinners: A book of recipes, by Elizabeth O. Hiller (1913). Project Gutenberg eBook #31534.

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Source and licence

From Fifty-two Sunday dinners, by Elizabeth O. Hiller (1913). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #31534 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31534). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Spain. Associated with Spain by a demonym leading its title: Spanish (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. 4 cups Brown Stock.
  2. 2 cups tomato pulp.
  3. 1 large, green, finely chopped pepper.
  4. 1 medium-sized onion, finely chopped.
  5. 4 tablespoons butter.
  6. 5 tablespoons flour.
  7. 2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish.
  8. 1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce.
  9. Salt, pepper and cayenne, or A few drops Tobasco Sauce.
  10. 1/2 cup hot cooked rice.
  11. PROCESS: Cook pepper and onion in butter five minutes.
  12. Add flour, stir until well blended and delicately browned, then add gradually stock and tomato pulp;
  13. let simmer twenty minutes.
  14. Rub through a sieve and season highly with salt, pepper, and cayenne or Tobasco.
  15. Before serving add Worcestershire, horseradish and rice.