Ox-cheek Soup.
The meat from the cheeks of an ox-head; 2 sliced onions, fried brown; sweet herbs; 1 small cup of rice; 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder; 3 quarts of water; pepper and salt; bones of the head.
Cut the meat very small; put with the fried onions and bones into a pot, and pour on the water. Stew slowly three hours. Strain, cool, skim; put in seasoning, herbs, and the rice, previously soaked two hours. Stew half an hour; add the curry-powder, wet in cold water; boil up, and pour out.