Cream of Crab Soup

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

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 6-8

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.