Cream of Crab Soup
- 1 ounce butter
- 12 ounce flour
- 1 14 pints fish stock (or chicken)
- 2 eggs, hard boiled
- 58 pint single cream
- 58 pint milk
- 1 12 teaspoons salt
- 18 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 lb crabmeat
- 3 tablespoons pale dry sherry
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Melt butter over moderate heat in large saucepan.
- When butter bubbles,add flour & mix thoroughly.
- Pour in a6 Tblsp of stock.
- cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens & comes to the boil.
- Reduce heat to low & simmer for 3 mins to cook flour.
- Stir in finely mashed eggs, rest of stock,cream, milk,salt & pepper.
- Bring to booil over high heat, still stirring.
- Reduce heat to moderate and add sherry, crabmeat, lime juice & bitters.
- cook for 2 - 3 mins more to heat crabmeat through.
- Taste for seasoning.
- serve at once from heated tureen or in iundividual soup bowls.
butter, flour, fish, eggs, cream, milk, salt, white pepper, crabmeat, pale dry sherry, lime juice, bitters
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/cream-of-crab-soup-226490 (may not work)