Beef Gravy Soup.
4 lbs. of coarse lean beef; 3 lbs. of bones; 2 sliced onions; 2 turnips; 2 carrots; bunch of sweet herbs; 3 stalks of celery; pepper and salt; 1 tablespoonful corn-starch, wet up in cold water; 5 quarts of water.
Cut the beef in small strips and fry to a good brown, in plenty of dripping. Take out the meat and lightly fry the bones. Remove these and put with the meat into the soup-pot. Now fry in the same fat the sliced onions; add these, when brown, to the meat and bones, and pour on them the five quarts of water. Cook slowly one hour; take off the scum, and put in the sliced carrots, turnips, the celery and herbs. Boil gently four hours. Strain; pick out the meat and bones, and put, well-seasoned, into the stock-jar. Pulp the vegetables into the soup; season; pour all but two quarts into the stock-jar, and set aside. Cool that left out for to-day, skim and re-heat; add the corn-starch, boil up and serve.