Mullagatawny Soup

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonful curry powder
• 6 onions
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 oz pounded almonds
• a little lemon-pickle, or mango-juice
• to taste
• 1 fowl or rabbit
• 4 slice lean bacon
• 2 quart medium stock, or, if wanted very good
• best stock

Instructions

1. =Slice and fry the onions of a nice colour;
2. line the stewpan with the bacon;
3. cut up the rabbit or fowl into small joints, and slightly brown them;
4. put in the fried onions, the garlic, and stock, and simmer gently till the meat is tender;
5. skim very carefully, and when the meat is done, rub the curry powder to a smooth batter;
6. add it to the soup with the almonds, which must be first pounded with a little of the stock.
7. Put in seasoning and lemon-pickle or mango-juice to taste, and serve boiled rice with it.