Cream of Crab Soup

Submitted by jenny butt

"This delicious soup is traditional to Barbados...........recipe printed in Foods of the world series Time/Life."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 28.34 g butter
• 14.17 g flour
• 591.48 ml fish stock (or chicken)
• 2 eggs, hard boiled
• 295.74 ml single cream
• 295.74 ml milk
• 7.39 ml salt
• 0.61 ml white pepper
• 453.59 g crabmeat
• 44.37 ml pale dry sherry
• 44.37 ml lime juice
• 0.25 ml 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.