Brilla Soup

Ingredients

• 4 lb shin of beef
• 3 carrots
• 2 turnips
• a large sprig of thyme
• 2 onions
• 1 head celery
• salt and pepper to taste
• 4 quart water

Instructions

1. Take the beef, cut off all the meat from the bone, in nice square pieces, and boil the bone for 4 hours.
2. Strain the liquor, let it cool, and take off the fat;
3. then put the pieces of meat in the cold liquor;
4. cut small the carrots, turnips, and celery;
5. chop the onions, add them with the thyme and seasoning, and simmer till the meat is tender.
6. If not brown enough, colour it with browning.