Crab-and-Tomato Bisque

Ingredients

• one quart of milk
• one pint of cooked and strained tomatoes
• half a pint of crab meat
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• two of butter
• one teaspoonful and a half of salt
• half a teaspoonful of pepper
• a scant half-teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Put the milk, except half a cupful, on the stove in a double-boiler.

2. 2

   Mix the cold milk with the flour, and stir into the boiling milk.

3. 3

   Cook for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Put the tomatoes on to cook in a saucepan.

5. 5

   When they have been boiling for five minutes, stir in the soda; continue stirring until there is no froth on the vegetable.

6. 6

   Strain the tomatoes, and add to them the butter, salt, and pepper.

7. 7

   Add the crab meat to the mixture of milk and flour, and after cooking for three minutes, stir the contents of the double-boiler into the stew-pan.

8. 8

   Serve at once.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crab-and-Tomato Bisque. Use for this soup one quart of milk, one pint of cooked and strained tomatoes, half a pint of crab meat, SOUPS. 165 two table-spoonfuls of flour, two of butter, one teaspoon- ful and a half of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, and a scant half-teaspoonful of soda

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