Crab Soup
photo by Anonymous
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 teaspoon mace
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄2 lb crabmeat (fresh is best)
- 4 tablespoons dry sherry
- 1 dash paprika (optional)
- 3 ears cooked corn (optional)
directions
- Melt the butter in the top of a double boiler and blend in flour until smooth.
- Add the milk and cream, gradually, and stir constantly with a wire whisk.
- Add crabmeat, onion, mace, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper (if adding corn, take kernals off the cob and add to soup now).
- Cook slowly over a double boiler for 25 minutes, stirring frequently.
- It should get to just below a boil.
- Just before serving, add sherry and stir.
- Pour into indiviual bowls and sprinkle with paprika.
Reviews
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BIG HIT!! I doubled the recipe and took it to a soup dinner at church! I'm not kidding when I tell you that of the 20 soups presented, the crab soup was gone within 10 minutes! In fact, I almost didn't get any for myself!! I received SO many compliments! As far as how I made it, I used extra butter and a lot more paprika for color more than anything else. I also used a lot more Worcestershire sauce and a TB Old Bay. I forgot to add the sherry, but no one was the wiser!! I can't wait to make it again - for my own family! Also, use better crab meat. I didn't and spent a lot of time picking through it and still found some in my soup! Thanks for sharing this gem of a recipe!
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Mmmmmm! Great crab soup. My soup also never really thickened up and I did use heavy whipping cream; but that can easily be fixed by using more flour next time and it tasted great anyway. I sauteed my onion in the butter before I continued on. Fresh corn is not in season right now, so I used about 2 cups of frozen thawed corn. I also used a full pound of crabmeat and added some tarragon. I will make this again. Thanx for posting.
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I used canned crab meat in this recipe also. My soup never did thicken up, but it's probably because the store was out of heavy whipping cream and I had to sub plain whipping cream. My husband, son and I enjoyed this, but it wasn't such a huge hit with the younger children. My son and I added in some hot sauce for a bit of a kick.
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OHHH MY! Very good and rich! I made this in a pot right on the stove. Didn`t bother fishing out the double boiler and it came out fine. Started by wilting the red onion in the butter followed with the flour and so on. I did use 1 teaspoon of old bay and use 1 pound of lump crab meat. So our soup was loaded with crab meat. Yes 1/2 pound would be just as good and much cheaper. I had a 1 pound can and knew I wouldn`t be using the rest before it went bad. So we enjoy a hearty, rich, warming soup.
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