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Ingredients for "Bethlem Soup":

10 stone of leg and shin of beef (£1.11s.8d)

2 ox heads (4s.)

2 buches of carrots (6d)

4 bunches of turnips (8d)

2 bunches of leeks (4d)

½ peck of onions (8d)

Celery (6d)

½ pound of pepper (1s.9d)

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