Cream of Fresh Mushroom Soup

Ingredients

• 25 pinte milk
• 1 lb. fresh mushrooms
• 2 oz@. butter
• Yolk of one egg
• 1 pint whipping cream

Method

1. 1

   Peel the mushrooms and chop them, stems included, quite finely.

2. 2

   Put the butter into a stewpan, and when hot add the chopped mushrooms and let them cook gently for 20 minutes.

3. 3

   Warm the gelatine in the milk until dissolved.

4. 4

   Add to the mushrooms and cook for two or three minutes, then rub the mixture through a hair sieve.

5. 5

   Return the soup to a saucepan, season to taste with salt and cayenne, and reheat.

6. 6

   When at boiling point add the yolk of the egg and the cream beaten together.

7. 7

   Serve very hot with a tablespoonful of whipped cream floating on each plate.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cox's manual of gelatine cookery (1935) by J. & G. Cox Limited, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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