Elderberry Soup with Dumplings

Ingredients

• 2 qts carefully picked and washed elderberries
• 1 1/2 qts water
• 1 qt sliced apples
• 1/2 lb sugar
• 1 tablesp sago
• 1 tablesp butter
• 1 cup flour
• yolks of 2 eggs
• a pinch of salt
• 1 teasp sugar
• the beaten white of 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   Boil 2 qts carefully picked and washed elderberries in 1 1/2 qts water about 1/2 hour, then run through a sieve and boil again with 1 qt sliced apples.

2. 2

   Add 1/2 lb sugar to every lb berries and thicken with 1 tablesp sago to every qt soup.

3. 3

   In this soup boil dumplings made by stirring 1 tablesp butter over the fire with 1 cup flour and 1 cup milk, until it loosens from the pan.

4. 4

   Let cool and then stir in yolks of 2 eggs, a pinch of salt and cinnamon, a little grated lemon rind, 1 teasp sugar and the beaten white of 1 egg.

5. 5

   Mix well, and with a tablesp cut off little dumplings the size of a walnut and boil 10 minutes in the soup.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Elderberry Soup with Dumplings Boil 2 qts carefully picked and washed elderberries in iVz qts water about ^ hour, then run through a sieve and boil again with 1 qt sliced apples. Add ^2 lb sugar to every lb ber- ries and thicken with 1 tablesp sago to every qt soup. In this soup boil dumplings made by the following recipe: Stir 1 tablesp butter over the fire with 1 cup flour and 1 cup milk, until it loosens from the pan. Let cool and then stir in yolks of 2 eggs, a pinch of salt and cinnamon, a little grated lemon rind, 1 teasp sugar and the beaten white of 1 e^^

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