Excerpt from Hanover Cook Book Beef is the best meat for making good stock, as it contains the most nourishment. A shank bone should be well cracked (that the marrow may be ex tracted). Put on to cook in cold water, allowing a full quart for every pound of beef, and by very gradual heat come to a slow simmer, which should be kept up five or six hours. Soup, on no account should be allowed to boil, except for the last fifteen minutes to cook vegetables in finishing. For the first hour of simmering, it should be frequently skimmed. Bits of left over meats may also be used for stock. As a flavoring, celery seed, a piece of bay leaf, a red pepper pod, horse-radish root, mushroom par ings or onion may be added at discretion. If soup has been over-salted use a teaspoonful of sugar and a tablespoonful of vinegar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.