Granny's Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb beef, with bone
• 4 cups water
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 cup sliced carrot
• 1 cup cut up celery & leaves
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomatoes
• 3 sprigs fresh parsley, cut fine
• 1/2 bay leaf, crumbled
• 3 peppercorns
• 1/4 teaspoon marjoram
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme

Recipe

• 1 cut meat off soup bone; cut in small chunks.
• 2 brown in 1 or 2 tablespoons hot fat in large kettle.
• 3 add water and bone; simmer, cover for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• 4 remove bone and skin fat from top of soup. add vegetables and seasonings and cook an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.