Philadelphia pepper pot
Philadelphia pepper pot recipe in the soup category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1/2 pound honeycomb tripe
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 4 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup celery, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 small bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon peppercorns, finely ground
- 2 tablespoon sparsley, minced
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup diced raw potato
- 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
Recipe method:
- Cook tripe, rinse and cut into 1/4-inch cubes.
- Place in large kettle and add chicken stock.
- Fry bacon until crisp and saute the onion, celery and green pepper in the bacon drippings.
- Add to tripe and chicken stock.
- To this mixture add the bay leaf, peppercorns, parsley and salt.
- Cover. When mixture comes to the boiling point, add diced raw potato.
- Cover and simmer gently for about 1 hour.
- Blend melted butter or margarine with flour and stir into hot soup mixture.
- Season with additional salt if necessary.
- Just before serving, stir in the heavy cream.
- Serve piping hot.
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