Chestnut Soup

Ingredients

• a quart of milk or cream
• tablespoon of flour
• tablespoon of butter
• Season to your taste with salt
• and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Boil large French chestnuts till tender, then take off the shell and skins.

2. 2

   Set aside a handful of the meats and mash the rest through a sieve.

3. 3

   Heat milk or cream and thicken with flour mixed smooth with butter.

4. 4

   Add the chestnuts through the sieve until the cream is as thick as desired.

5. 5

   Season with salt and pepper, add the reserved chestnut meats, boil up, and serve at once.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The home cook book (1905) by Christine Frederick, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tablespoon of butter to a pint of the liquid. Add also cream if greater richness is wished. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve hot with bread sticks or sippets. CHEESE SOUP Mix two cups of milk with two cups of white stock, or white soup of chicken or veal. Mince fine a small onion and add. When the liquid is hot stir in a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of butter rubbed together smooth. After the flour cooks in and thickens the soup stir in half a cup of grated cheese, adding, to ensure against the curdling of the milk, a small pinch of soda just before the cheese. Lastly, and just as you take the kettle from the stove, stir in a well-beaten egg. Serve hot with little squares of toasted bread. 24 THE HOME COOK BOOK CHESTNUT SOUP Chip off a piece from each shell to help the boiling an boil till tender large French chestnuts. Take off the shell and skins. Set a handful of the meats aside, and break an mash through a sieve the other meats. Have a cream mad by heating a quart of milk or cream and thickening with tablespoon of flour mixed smooth with a tablespoon of buttei Add the chestnuts you have put through the sieve till you hav the cream as thick as you wish it. Season to your taste wit salt and pepper

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