Winter Soups

Old-Fashioned Beef and Vegetable Soup

2 cups diced cooked beef
6 cups beef stock
2 cups diced potatoes
1 cup diced celery
2 small onions, peeled and quartered
1 - 1 lb can of whole tomatoes cut in chunks
2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 cups shredded green cabbage
1 cup frozen corn
1 Tbsp chopped parsley

Brown and simmer beef and set aside. Mix next eight ingredients in a large kettle,
heat to boiling and then simmer 20 minutes. Add cabbage, corn and meat; simmer
10 more minutes. Sprinkle on parsley and ladle into soup bowls. Serve with chunks
of crusty bread. Make 8 servings.



Crock Pot Hamburger Stew

½ - 1 lb hamburger
4 beef bullion cubes
6 carrots
6 potatoes
1 onion
3 stalks celery
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp cooking oil
Flour

Form hamburger in to small meatballs, roll in flour and brown in oil. Cut vegetables
into bite size pieces and put in crock pot; salt and pepper. Put meat on top; cover with
water in which bullion cubes are dissolved. Set on high until hot and then on low for
several hours or all day.





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