Name: German Soup-balls
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; 1 cup cracker crumbs

German Soup-balls

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
1 cup cracker crumbs

Directions

Make the soup balls

Mix the butter and cracker crumbs together to form a firm round ball.

Serve

Drop the ball into the soup shortly before serving.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Butter: Adds fat and richness, helping the crumbs bind into a firm ball.
Cracker crumbs: Form the main body of the ball and absorb fat to hold its shape.

“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.