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Vermicelli Soup, White (another way)

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Do not boil after adding the egg.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2216. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vermicelli Soup, White (another way). — Boil a quart of nicely-flavoured stock, break lightly two ounces of vermicelli, and blanch it in boiling water for five minutes, then put it into the soup, and boil till tender. Beat the yolk of an egg with two table-spoon- fuls of cream. A few minutes before it is to be served, mix a spoonful or two of the soup with the egg, add it to the rest, and let it simmer gently for a short time, but the soup must not boil after the egg is added. Put a French roll into the bottom of a tureen
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