"My moms recipe. Very good old fashioned soup. The stock is beef flovor, not tomato based."
Ingredients
1/2 lb pot roast or 1/2 lb
steak
2 tablespoons
butter
1 tablespoon
barley
4
carrots
4 stalks
celery
1 medium
onion
1/4 head
green cabbage
1/2
of a turnip
1 large
tomato
6
potatoes
2 teaspoons
salt
1/2 teaspoon
pepper
1 tablespoon
parsley flakes
1 (12 ounce) packages
frozen peas
1 (12 ounce) packages
frozen corn
1 tablespoon beef base or 4
beef bouillon cubes
Directions
Cut beef into 1 inch pieces.
Melt butter in a cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add beef, brown very well on all sides. Add 1 cup of water to skillet and stir to loosen the drippings in the skillet. Pour beef, water with drippings into large dutch oven .
Add an additional 8 cups of water to dutch oven. Begin cooking over low heat.
Add barley.
Slice carrots and celery into 1/4 inch slices. Add to water.
Dice in medium pieces onion, tomato and turnip and add.
Coarsely chop cabbage and add.
Peel and cut potatoes into 1 inch pieces and add.
Add salt and pepper.
Bring soup just to a boil, turn heat down to low and simmer 1 hour 10 minutes.
Add parsley flakes frozen corn and peas simmer 20 minutes.