Show SOME nourishing SOUPS on a chilly night or any other alm time of lay day a dish of liot hot well seasoned soup Is most gratifying potato soup chop nn an onion fr fry in butter odd add six potatoes cut in dice and one bay leaf add one quart of water and cook until the potatoes are very soft add one quart of milk rub through a sieve and rel reheat icat season to taste and thicken with mith the yolks of two eggs beaten smooth with a cupful I 1 of if cream soup scrape and dean clean three bun bunches clies of cut into dice c and soak for 15 minutes in cold water drain cover with fresh water and cool conic for hn an hour add add a quart of mine milk two tablespoonfuls of butter salt and pepper to season bring bing to tile bolling boiling point poin tadd add three milk crackers rolled fine find and serve at once chicken and curry soup slice one onion fry in butter add a large sour apple chopped a sprig of thyme and parsley a bay leaf a tablespoonful of lemon juice aud and ft a toa spoonful of i salt and one of curry powder add four cupfuls of chicken stock simmer for 15 minute eq 1 strain and add halt half a cupful of boiled rice and serve at once oxtail soup cut tin nn oxtail into joints and fry in hot fat add two pounds of lean beef four carrots three onions and a bunch of sweet herbs cover with cold water simmer until the meat Is very tender strain reheat thicken with two tablespoonfuls tablespoon each of flour and butter cooked together thinned with a little of the soup cook until well done chicken gumbo cut up a large tender chicken and fry brown in butter with a quart of okra add two cupfuls of tomatoes a large onion chopped half a cupful of raw ham find and water to cover simmer until the chicken chicke n falls from the bones then remove the bones arid and add 12 soda crackers a tablespoonful of butter pepper and salt to season and three hard cooked eggs chopped fine |