Cream of Rice
¹⁄₄ lb. Carolina rice
1 quart chicken stock
1 gill cream
1 tea-spoon of butter
Wash the rice and boil it several minutes in water. Drain. Add it to the stock. Simmer until the rice is tender. Rub through a tammy. Just before serving mix with the soup a gill of cream and a tea-spoonful of butter.
A little whole rice which has been boiled in chicken broth can be added to the soup, or it can be served with a dozen small quenelles of chicken (see [p. 105]).
Giblet Soup
1 set of giblets
1 whole onion
1 chopped onion
Grated rind of the third of a lemon
A few drops of lemon juice
1 oz. butter
1 table-spoon flour
1 glass white wine
Small bouquet of herbs
2 cloves
1 quart of stock
Scald and cut in pieces a set of giblets. Put in a sauce-pan with a quart of good stock, a whole onion stuck with two cloves and the lemon rind. Simmer until the giblets are very tender. Strain off the stock. Make a brown roux of the butter and flour (see [p. 12]). Add it to the stock with the herbs and an onion chopped fine. Boil hard for ten minutes. Strain through a fine sieve. Add a glass of white wine. Season with cayenne, salt, and a few drops of lemon juice.
Hare Soup
A large fresh hare
2 onions
1 carrot
2 pieces of celery
Bouquet of herbs
4 cloves
4 pepper-corns
Cayenne
1 glass of port
2 quarts of cold water
Cut a perfectly fresh hare into pieces, being careful to save all the blood. Let the pieces soak in two quarts of cold water in a stew-pan for an hour. Add the blood, and set on the fire. Bring to the boil, stirring and skimming frequently. Add the vegetables, herbs, spices and pepper-corns. Simmer gently for two or three hours. Strain off the liquid. Cut the meat from the bones. Set aside some of the best to be cut into small pieces. Pound the rest in a mortar and put through a tammy (see [p. 60]). Return to the sauce-pan with the stock. When it boils season highly, add a glass of port wine, and the small pieces of hare which have been reserved. Serve. Force-meat balls (see [p. 104]) may be added also.