Grandma’s Vegetable Beef Soup
Ingredients for broth:
Davidson Family Farms beef shank….soup bone with meat on it.
Cold water to cover the bone or bones
1 tsp salt
Whole onion
4 celery stalks
3 bay leaves
1 carrot
Directions
Put soup bones in a pot and cover them with water. Add salt. Bring to boil over high heat then turn heat to simmer and let simmer for 4 hours or so. Add more water as needed to keep the bones covered.
After the broth is simmering add chopped onion, celery, carrot and bay leaves.
After 4 hours cool to lukewarm and strain your broth. Discard the vegetables but take the meat off the bones , chop to bite size pieces and add back to the pot.
Refrigerate over night to bring fat to the top and scoop the fat off…who needs extra fat?!
Ingredients to finish the soup: choose any selection of your favorite vegetables and barley! My favorites are the following;
¼ cup uncooked barley.
potatoes
Carrots
Green beans
Corn
Can of diced tomatoes
Onion
Peas
Simmer vegetables gently in the broth until they are cooked. Follow the directions on the box of barley for the appropriate cook time for it.