Poor Man's Soup

Ingredients

• a finely- shredded onion
• a walnut of butter
• a heaped teaspoonful of flour
• a pint of stock
• a potato
• a dozen sippets of dry toast
• pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• the yolk of an egg, well beaten up

Method

1. 1

   Fry the onion and butter in the Chafing Dish until light brown.

2. 2

   Add flour and stir well.

3. 3

   Pour in stock, add pepper and salt.

4. 4

   Slice the potato and add to the soup.

5. 5

   Bring to a boil, then simmer for ten minutes.

6. 6

   Stir in the beaten egg just before serving, along with the dry toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cult of the chafing dish (1904) by Frank Schloesser, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poor Man's Soup. Poor Man's Soup, as the French call it, is SOUPS 47 a very restorative dish after a bad day on the Stock Exchange, although there is little of the Poor Man about it save the name. Put a finely- shredded onion and a walnut of butter in the Chafing Dish and fry to a light brown colour, then add a heaped tea- spoonful of flour and stir well ; pour in a pint of stock, add pepper and salt to taste. Peel and slice a potato and scatter it in the soup ; let the mixture come to a boil, and then allow it to simmer for ten minutes. Just before serving stir into it the yolk of an egg, well beaten up, and a dozen sippets of dry toast

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