Recipe - Lorraine Soup

1 Thick slice white bread
One fourth pt Milk
2 Breasts of cooked, skinned,
minced chicken
4 Gound almonds
2 Hard boiled egg yolks
2 pt Chicken stock
Salt
White pepper
One fourth teaspoon Grated nutmeg
2 teaspoon Lemon juice
2 Egg yolks
One fourth pt Double cream
2 tablespoon Finely minced cooked chicken

Remove crusts from bread and place in small saucepan. Cover with the milk
and bring to boil. Set aside and allow to cool a bit. Pound minced
chicken, almonds and hardboiled yolks in mortor until smooth, then place
in a large bowl. Gradually beat in the bread and milk. Stir in the stock,
then pass through a seive into a suacepan. Bring to the boil, season with
salt and pepper, add nutmeg and lemon juice. Simmer for 10 mins, then
remove from the heat. Beat egg yolks with the cream and blend 3
tablespoonfuls of the hot soup. Stir the mixture into the soup and heat
gently for 2 or 3 mins. DO NOT ALLOW TO BOIL. When it thickens, serve
with the minced chicken as a garnish.Subj: Alexandra Soup Lorraine Soup
Scottish

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