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Cream Soup

A simple soup made with cream and boiling water, lightly salted, served hot with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cream Soup

Cream Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine 1 cup of good cream with 2 cups of boiling water.

  2. Stir well and season lightly with salt.

  3. Serve hot with bits of toast.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Good cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the soup a smooth, rounded mouthfeel.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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