American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Force Meat Balls for Soup

Original Recipe

One cupful of cooked veal or fowl meat, minced; mix with this a handful of fine bread crumbs, the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs rubbed smooth together with a tablespoon of milk; season with pepper and salt; add a half teaspoon of flour, and bind all together with two beaten eggs; the hands to be well floured, and the mixture to be made into little balls the size of a nutmeg; drop into the soup about twenty minutes before serving.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cupful of cooked veal or fowl meat
  • 1 handful of fine bread crumbs
  • 1 tablespoon of milk
  • 1 half teaspoon of flour
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1 nutmeg

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Instructions

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    One cupful of cooked veal or fowl meat, minced; mix with this a handful of fine bread crumbs, the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs rubbed smooth together with a tablespoon of milk; season with pepper and salt; add a half teaspoon of flour, and bind all together with two beaten eggs; the hands to be well floured, and the mixture to be made into little balls the size of a nutmeg; drop into the soup about twenty minutes before serving.

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