Original Day Family cookbook
Ingredients:
3 tablespoon butter or margarine
3/4 pound hamburg or venison burger
3 onions, sliced
1/3 cup barley
1 No. 2 can (2 ½ cups) tomatoes
1-½ qts. water
1 tablespoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
a few whole peppercorns, if you have them
3 carrots, sliced
3 potatoes, diced
3 stalks celery, diced
1 teaspoon steak sauce
1 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce
Directions:
Using a large soup kettle, fry meat in melted fat until the red color leaves it, crumbling meanwhile so that the meat is separated. Add onions and cook a few mins. longer. Add water, tomatoes, barley, salt, and pepper. Cover and simmer gently over a low heat for 1 hour. Add vegetables, Worchestershire sauce, steak sauce, bring back to steaming point, lower heat and cook another hour.
Serve hot with cornbread or bisquits.
Makes 6 servings of ample proportions.
Variations: