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Two quarts of chicken stock (the water in which fowl have been boiled will answer),
one tea-cupful of rice,
a quart of cream or milk,
a small onion,
a stalk of celery and
salt and pepper to taste.
Wash rice carefully, and add to chicken stock, onion and celery. Cook slowly two hours (it should hardly bubble). Put through a [...]

We need
A pint of milk,
a table-spoonful of flour,
one of butter,
a head of celery,
a large slice of onion and
small piece of mace.
Boil celery in a pint of water from thirty to forty-five minutes; boil mace, onion and milk together.
Mix flour with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk, and add to boiling milk. Cook ten minutes. [...]

Here are two cream of barley soup recipes:
Wash a cup of pearl barley, drain and simmer slowly in two quarts of water for four or five hours, adding boiling water from time to time as needed. When the barley is tender, strain off the liquor, of which there should be about three pints; add to [...]

Soak three fourths of a pint of dried Scotch peas over night in a quart of water.
In the morning put to cook in boiling water, cover closely and let them simmer gently four or five hours, or until the peas are very tender and well disintegrated; then rub through a colander to remove the [...]

We need:
1 quart tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon soda
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
1 quart milk
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Stew tomatoes slowly one-half hour; rub through strainer; heat and add soda. In the meantime, melt butter and stir in flour; add milk slowly, cooking over low fire until thick; add seasoning.
Take from fire and stir in hot tomatoes [...]