Clear Celery Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the celery in boiling salted water until tender.
Drain the celery well and place it in a tureen.
Add the boiling clear stock to the celery.
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
- Celery
- Provides the main vegetable flavour and the body of the soup once cooked until tender.
The step that matters
Draining the celery well. Excess cooking water left on the celery would dilute the stock added afterward, weakening the soup's flavour and making it thinner than intended.
“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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