Chestnut Soup
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Chestnut Soup

Ingredients

  • 50 chestnuts
  • 1 onion
  • 1 stalk celery
  • salt
  • veal stock
  • 1/2 pint milk
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 cup cream

Directions

  1. Blanch 50 chestnuts, remove husks and shell.
  2. Boil 10 minutes.
  3. Put into a stew-pan with 1 sliced onion, 1 stick sliced celery, salt and good veal stock to cover.
  4. Put buttered paper over pan and stew 1 hour.
  5. Rub through a tammy (fine sieve) into 1/2 pt milk and enough stock to make a nice consistency.
  6. While hot, stir in yolk of 1 egg and 1/2 cup of cream and serve.

Other Information

Author: Isabel Harris Metcalf

Source: Just A Few Tried and True Receipts (1916-01-01)

Category: Soup

Ingredients: chestnut, onion, celery, salt, stock, milk, egg yolk, cream

Equipment: sieve, measuring spoons, measuring cups, pot, pan

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