Soup should never be greasy, and hence, before using the stock, every particle of the fat should be removed.

Cabbage soup was the usual thing and after a certain time it turned our stomachs.

I was not cheered by the sight of goose or turkey turning on the spit as I entered the vast smoke-begrimed kitchen, lighted chiefly by the flame of the fire, but the great chain-pot sent forth a perfume that was not offensive, although the soup was maigre.

Clissold's especially excellent seal soup, roast mutton and red currant jelly, fruit salad, asparagus and chocolatesuch was our menu.

" ("Soup in the evening, and soup in the morning, Is the everyday food of a good Christian.") The cooking apparatus of that period consisted of a whole glittering array of cauldrons, saucepans, kettles, and vessels of red and yellow copper, which hardly sufficed for all the rich soups for which France was so famous.

This soup is a summer soup and is to be eaten cold.

The soup should be a rich reddish brown in color when done.

And when JOACHIM protested that "soup first" was a fixed rule, ARTHUR B. insinuated that his colleague was a mule.

The Sexton stepped with dignity to the head seat and, keeping his eyes on the dishes, recited aloud the following verses: The birds that fly, the beasts that crawl, For man's behoof God made them all; Chicken soup, beans, pork, plums and veal, Are gifts divineLord bless the meal!

Sel. SOUPS Soup is an easily made, economical, and when properly prepared from healthful and nutritious material, very wholesome article of diet, deserving of much more general use than is commonly accorded it.

The soup is liquified bliss; the cotelettes d'agneau are cotelettes de bonheur; and as for that broad dish of Syrian larksHeaven forgive us the regret, that more songs had not been silenced for our sake!

The first course after the soup was potatoes (sautées); then came barbel from the stream, and afterwards veal and fowl.