Consomme Lady Curzon
- 2 cups canned Turtle Soup
- Juice from 1/4 lemon
- Freshly ground salt and white pepper
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 ounces butter, cut into 3 pieces
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- Pinch nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons cold whipping cream
- Remove the turtle meat from the can of soup and chop it into small pieces.
- Pour the soup into a pan and heat.
- Add the turtle meat and simmer.
- Into the top of a heated double boiler, place the lemon juice and some freshly ground salt and white pepper.
- Beat in the egg yolks and gradually add the cubes of butter stirring constantly.
- Whisk in the curry powder and nutmeg.
- Continue beating and increase the heat under the soup.
- Dribble the cold cream down the sides of the pan and beat in thoroughly.
- The sauce will now be thickening very fast, so lower the heat under the double boiler.
- (If the sauce curdles, then add an ice cube and whip it away from the heat).
- Pour the hot soup into cups and top with the thick cream sauce.
- Serve at once.
lemon, freshly ground salt, egg yolks, butter, curry powder, nutmeg, cold whipping cream
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/consomme-lady-curzon-recipe.html (may not work)