Beef Soup
1 pound of beef, 2 quarts of water, 1 cup of rice or pearl barley. Put in a soup pot. Boil slowly for. two hours. In another vessel have a good soup bone, together with 1 onion, 1 potato, 1/2 carrot, 1 turnip and a little parsley. Boil with the meat. When ready to serve strain the soup off the bones and vegetables into the other vessel. Take 2 eggs, beat well in the soup tureen, stir the soup and add gradually, and the eggs will not curdle. This will be found a good as well as a cheap soup.