Xavier Soup

Ingredients

• a well-cleaned chicken
• 2 sliced onions
• 1 leek
• 1 blade of mace
• 3 sprigs of parsley
• Yt tablespoonf ul salt
• 1 cupful green peas
• Y, tablespoonf ul butter
• Ys tablespoonful fiour
• 3 tablespoonf uls chicken broth
• 3 tablespoonf uls sweet cream
• the beaten whites of 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put a well-cleaned chicken in a large saucepan; cover with cold water and set it over a moderate fire.

2. 2

   When it begins to boil, remove the scum; add onions, leek, mace, parsley, and salt.

3. 3

   Boil slowly until the chicken is tender.

4. 4

   Stew green peas in water with a little salt, then drain and press through a sieve.

5. 5

   Melt butter, add flour, stir for a few minutes, then add chicken broth and cook for 3 minutes.

6. 6

   Mix with peas, add cream and beaten egg whites.

7. 7

   Fill into buttered timbale forms, set in hot water, cover, and cook until firm.

8. 8

   Strain chicken broth, return to saucepan, add butter and flour mixture, cook for 5 minutes, then add cream mixed with egg yolks.

9. 9

   Do not boil again.

10. 10

    Cut chicken breast into small pieces, lay in tureen, unmould timbales, add to soup, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Xayier Soup. — Put a well-cleaned chicken in a large saucepan ; cover with cold water and set it over a moderate fire ; when it begins to boil remove the scum ; add 2 sliced onions, 1 leek, 1 blade of mace, and 3 sprigs of parsley, Yt tablespoonf ul salt ; cover tightly and boil slowly till the chicken is tender. In the meantime stew 1 cupful green peas in water with a little salt ; when done drain off the water, press the peas through a sieve ; melt Y, tablespoonf ul butter, add Ys tablespoonful fiour, stir this for few minutes over the fire, add 3 tablespoonf uls chicken broth, and cook 3 minutes ; then mix it with the peas ; add 3 tablespoonf uls sweet cream, the beaten whites of 3 eggs

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