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Cream of Crab Soup
 
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Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes
Ready In: 60 Minutes
Servings: 8
This delicious soup is traditional to Barbados...........recipe printed in Foods of the world series Time/Life.
Ingredients:
1 ounce butter
1/2 ounce flour
1 1/4 pints fish stock (or chicken)
2 eggs, hard boiled
5/8 pint single cream
5/8 pint milk
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
1 lb crabmeat
3 tablespoons pale dry sherry
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 dash angostura bitters
Directions:
1. Melt butter over moderate heat in large saucepan.
2. When butter bubbles,add flour & mix thoroughly.
3. Pour in a6 Tblsp of stock.
4. cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens & comes to the boil.
5. Reduce heat to low & simmer for 3 mins to cook flour.
6. Stir in finely mashed eggs, rest of stock,cream, milk,salt & pepper.
7. Bring to booil over high heat, still stirring.
8. Reduce heat to moderate and add sherry, crabmeat, lime juice & bitters.
9. cook for 2 - 3 mins more to heat crabmeat through.
10. Taste for seasoning.
11. serve at once from heated tureen or in iundividual soup bowls.
By RecipeOfHealth.com