Old fashioned vegetable beef soup

10 -12

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
3Beef shanks; cross cut
8cupsWater
4teaspoonsSalt
½teaspoonOregano; dried
¼teaspoonMarjoram; dried
5eachesWhole black peppercorns
2eachesBay leaves
2 celery; chopped

Directions

STOCK

~--------------------------------Vegetables------------ 1 10 oz. corn; frozen

3 ea tomatoes; peeled and cut up 2 ea potatoes; medium, cubed

1 c green beans, fresh; or

: -frozen

2 ea carrots; cubed

1 ea onion; medium, sliced

Combine all stock ingredients and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 2 hours. Remove beef; when cool enough to handle, cut off meat and coarsley chop. Discard bones, strain broth, and skim excess fat. Return broth to kettle and add all remaining ingredients plus chopped meat. Bring back to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for an hour longer.