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Celery Soup, Cream of

From The "A1" cookery book, 1901

Serves 5

Stock from boiled fowl is sufficient for this soup.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • 2 heads of celery
  • 2 oz. of butter
  • 2 quarts chicken broth
  • 2 oz. flour
  • 1 pint boiling cream
  • cayenne pepper, salt, nutmeg

Method

  1. Wash and cut celery into 1-inch pieces, boil in salt water for 10 minutes, then strain.

  2. Return celery to saucepan with butter, salt, pepper, and nutmeg; cover and boil slowly until soft.

  3. Rub through a sieve, mix with chicken broth, and thicken with flour cooked in butter.

  4. Boil for 10 minutes, skim, then add boiling cream and a small piece of butter.

  5. Serve with crofitons of fried bread.

Nutrition per serving

502Calories
13 gProtein
26 gCarbs
47 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "A1" cookery book (1901) by H. N. L., page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Celery Soup, Cream of. — 2 heads of celery, 2 oz. of butter, 2 quarts chicken broth, 2 oz. flour, 1 pint boiling cream, cayenne pepper, salt, nutmeg

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