Beef Soup With Liver Balls

Ingredients

some garlic
2 lb short ribs
2 slices onions
4 slices stalks celery
5 ts salt
3/4 ts pepper
2 qt water
2 carrots
3 tomatoes
4 sprigs parsley
1 liver
1 c bread crumbs
3 tb flour
2 eggs
1/4 parsley
1/8 ts marjoram
1/8 ts mace

Instructions

SOUP: Wash meat; place in large kettle; add onions and celery (include tops), salt, pepper and water. Cover; bring to a boil; then skim off scum. Reduce heat so meat just simmers; then cook 1 1/2 hours. Add carrots, tomatoes, and parsley; cook 1 hour or until meat is tender. Meanwhile, make liver balls. LIVER BALLS: Combine liver with bread crumbs, flour, eggs, parsley, salt, pepper, marjoram, mace and garlic. Let stand until soup is done; then shape into balls about the size of golf balls. Remove tender meat, bone, and carrots from soup; cut meat and carrots into bite-sized pieces; return to soup. Then bring soup to a boil; drop in liver balls, cover; cook 10 minutes. Serve. SOURCE: Good Housekeeping Around the World Cookbook : The Hearst Corporation 1958 Posted in FIDO Cooking by Bob Emert/Frank Skelly 09/03/93