Dutch Brown Ragout Soup

Ingredients

• onions

  chopped
  2 unit
• carrots

  chopped
  2 large
• chopped fresh parsley
  1/4 cup
• chopped tomatoes
  2 unit
• green pepper

  chopped
  1 unit
• Bacon
  2 slices
• butter
  6 tablespoons
• flour
  2/3 cup
• beef broth
  8 cups
• thyme
  1 pinch
• bay leaves
  1 unit
• mace
  1 pinch
• ground fresh pepper
  1 unit
• maggi seasoning or Kitchen Bouquet or soy sauce (Worcerstershire if preferred)
  1 dash
• Madeira wine or port wine
  2 tablespoons
•  lb small cooked meatballs
  1/2 unit
•  lb fresh Mushrooms

  whole if small or chopped
  1/4 unit