Gravy Soup

Name: Gravy Soup
Cuisine: Tidewater Virginia
Ingredients: 8 pounds coarse lean beef; ingredients for shin soup; 2 tablespoons mushroom catsup; toasted bread

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

8 pounds coarse lean beef
ingredients for shin soup
2 tablespoons mushroom catsup
toasted bread

Instructions

Wash the beef clean and place it in your pot. Add the same ingredients called for in the shin soup recipe, along with the same quantity of water. Follow the process directed for shin soup.
Strain the soup through a sieve and serve it up clear, with nothing more than toasted bread in it. Two tablespoonsful of mushroom catsup may be added to impart a fine flavour to the soup.