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Beer Soup

From The thorough good cook, 1895

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • some slices of bread
  • a little water
  • caraway seeds
  • lemon-peel
  • sugar
  • spice
  • beer

Method

  1. Boil slices of bread soft in a little water, then strain and beat smooth.

  2. Add caraway seeds, lemon-peel, sugar, spice, and beer.

  3. Boil together until caraways are soft, then stir briskly with yolks of eggs in the tureen.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

beer soup — of which hust there 14 TEE THOROUGH GOOD COOK. arc at least half-a-dozen varieties ? A very favourite one is beer soup with caraAvay seeds ; it is made Avith some slices of bread boiled soft in a little water, then strained, and beaten smooth ; caraway seeds, lemon-peel, sugar, spice

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