Macaroni Soup (Cardinale)

Ingredients

• the tails of twenty-four or thirty crayfish
• three spoonfuls of supreme sauce
• two of purée of mushrooms
• one pound of macaroni
• two ounces of crayfish butter

Method

1. 1

   Prepare crayfish tails, make crayfish butter, mix with macaroni, supreme sauce, and mushroom purée.

2. 2

   Garnish with crayfish tails and serve with boiling broth.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MACARONI SOUP (CARDINALE). Prepare (after cooking) the tails of twenty-four or thirty crayfish ; put them apart with a little hot broth in a small stewpan by the side of the fire, to keep them hot. Pound the shells well and make a crayfish butter (No. 1 69) ; mix three spoonfuls of supreme sauce (No. 188) with two of purte of mushrooms. Cook and strain one poimd of macaroni, put it in a saut^-pan with the two ounces of crayfish butter just made; add two ounces of grated cheese, the purde of mushrooms and supreme sauce, mix well together by tossing it up whilst over the fire, and when properly warmed dish it up on a hot dish ; then strain the crayfish tails and place them nicely one by one over the macaroni as a decorative garnish, and serve with three pints of boiling broth in a soup-tureen apart PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 53 87. MACARONI SOUP (DOMINICAINE). Soak in lukewarm water for a few minutes about three ounces of dry mushrooms ; then drain and put them in a stewpan with one pint of fish broth, an onion, a carrot, a bay-leaf, and a few sprigs of parsley. Simmer these for an hour on a slow fire, strain the broth and return it to the stewpan, save the mushrooms; soak three ounces of bread crumbs in water, strain and press the water well out of it ; put the bread with the cooked mushrooms into the stewpan with the essence just strained ; let these simmer and dry ; stir, and when well reduced and the bread crumbs as well as the mushrooms are crisp, pass them through a sieve. In the meantime cook and strain one pound of macaroni

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