The Lord Mayor’s Soup

Name: The Lord Mayor’s Soup
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: flour, 6 oz.†: 10 to 12 minutes.; Butter, ½ lb.; cayenne and common pepper, each ½ saltspoonful; Minced herbs, 2 tablespoonsful; salt, ½ teaspoonful or more; Forcemeat-balls, 2 to 3 dozens.; sherry, ½ pint: 3 to 5 minutes.; cloves, 12: 3½ to 4 hours, feet, 1 hour more.; 1 large onion; bunch Savoury herbs; water, 5 quarts; Pigs’ feet, 8

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

About

Ingredients

Pigs’ feet, 8
ears, 4
water, 5 quarts

Europe
United Kingdom
Soup
Spicy

Method

Wash thoroughly two sets of moderate sized pigs’ ears and feet from which the hair has been carefully removed; add to them five quarts of cold water, and stew them very gently with a faggot of savoury herbs, and one large onion stuck with a dozen