Imperial Soup

A dish built around white stock iii and stale bread crumbs.

Soups With Meat Stock

contains glutencontains dairycontains meat

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • 4 cups White Stock III
  • 2 cups stale bread crumbs
  • 2 stalks celery, broken in pieces
  • 2 slices carrot, cut in cubes
  • 1 small onion
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • Sprig of parsley
  • 2 cloves
  • ½ teaspoon peppercorns
  • Bit of bay leaf
  • Blade of mace
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ breast boiled chicken
  • ⅓ cup blanched almonds
  • 1 cup cream
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons flour
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 3 tablespoons butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
  • 1 cup cream → lactose-free cream or coconut cream
  • ½ cup milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Cook celery, carrot, and onion in one tablespoon butter five minutes; tie in cheese-cloth with parsley, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaf, and mace; add to stock with salt and bread crumbs, simmer one hour, remove seasonings, and rub through a sieve. Chop chicken meat and rub through sieve; pound almonds to a paste, add to chicken, then add cream. Combine mixtures, add milk, reheat, and bind with remaining butter and flour cooked together.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories432
Protein26.7 g
Fat20.5 g
Carbs34.9 g
Fiber4.1 g
Sodium888 mg

Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States