Recipe - Meal-In-A-Soup

1 pound Ground beef
1 cup Chopped onion
1 cup Diced raw potatoes
1 cup Sliced carrots
1 cup Shredded cabbage
One fourth cup Uncooked rice
6 cup Water
1 Bay leaf; crushed
One half teaspoon Dried thyme
4 teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Pepper
19 ounce Canned tomatoes; cut up

Brown the meat and onion in a large pot. Add the rest of the ingredients
except for the tomatoes. Cover and simmer 1 hour.

Add the tomatoes at the end of the cooking time and cook just enough to
heat them through. Taste and adjust the seasonings.

Makes 8 10 servings.

This recipe is from an old pamphlet put out by the former Calgary Power
(now TransAlta Utilities), an electric utility company in Alberta.

Note : When it comes to soup I tend to use what I have. If I don't have
cabbage but do have parsnips no problem with the substitution.

I find this a bit bland as it stands and always add some garlic and hot
pepper sauce, Ketjap Manis, Worcestershire sauce, Maggi etc. I never seem
to make it the same way twice.

Formatted for MasterCook by Hallie du Preez. Contributed by allium.

Recipe by: Hot 'N Hearty; Calgary Power (now TransAlta Utilities)

Posted to KitMailbox Digest by Hallie buddy@connect.ab.ca on Jan 18,
1998