Let it boil gently for an hour and a half.
Then put the dripping into another saucepan, and fry the bacon in it.
Then add, by degrees, the oatmeal; stir until it forms a paste.
Then pour in the broth.
Season with pepper and salt to taste, and set it by the side of the fire to simmer for thirty minutes; the soup is then ready.
Crowdie.
- Ingredients—1 gallon of liquor from meat.
- ¼ pint of oatmeal.
- 1 onion.
- Pepper and salt.
Method.—Put the liquor into a saucepan on the fire.
Mix the oatmeal to a paste with cold water.
Pour it into the liquor when boiling.