She Crab Soup Recipe - Cooking Index
She Crab Soup Recipe - Cooking Index
| 1 | Leek - sliced | |
| 8 | Celery - diced | |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Flour |
| 1 | Oregano | |
| 1 | Fish stock | |
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Crabmeat |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Worcestershire sauce |
| 2 | Egg yolks - beaten | |
| 1 | Onion - diced | |
| 1/4 lb | 113g / 4oz | Butter |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Tomato paste |
| 1 | Chicken broth | |
| 4 oz | 113g | Crab roe |
| 4 tablespoons | 60ml | Sherry |
| 1/2 | Cream | |
| Salt and pepper to taste |
Melt butter in saucepan, add vegetables, and simmer until tender. Mix flour, tomato paste and oregano. Stir well, add to vegetables. Stir in chicken broth and fish stock.
Boil 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. To this mixture, add crab roe, crabmeat, sherry, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes ONLY. Remove from heat. Add egg yolks and cream.
Serve at once.
Makes about 1 gallon.
This is a very old and secretive South Carolina recipe that originated in Charleston, SC., a city much like that of the history of New Orleans. The recipe has never before been given out from the original family of the restaurant first making this dish. Over the years, other restaurants have come up with a good likeness of it, but not the original. Here is the original.
Source:
Cooking Light, May 1994, page 114
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