Royal Soup

Ingredients

• yolks of six eggs
• rather less than one gill of cold water
• a pinch of salt
• some cochineal
• spinach greening

Method

1. 1

   Mix yolks with water and salt, strain, divide into three parts, color one with cochineal, another with spinach.

2. 2

   Steam in buttered moulds, cool, cut into dice, and serve in consomme.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Royal Soup. — Mix the yolks of six eggs, with rather less than one gill of cold water and a pinch of salt ; strain the mixture and divide it into three equal parts ; colour one with some cochineal, the other with spinach greening

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