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Cream of Scallop Soup

A historical lunch recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 1 quart Scallops
  • 4 cups Milk
  • As needed Bit of Bay Leaf
  • ¼ teaspoon Peppercorns
  • 1 tablespoon Onion
  • 5 tablespoons Butter
  • ¼ cup Flour
  • As needed Salt
  • As needed Pepper

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Clean scallops, reserve one-half cup and finely chop remainder. Add these to milk, with seasonings and two tablespoons butter, and cook slowly twenty minutes. Strain and thicken with remaining butter and flour cooked together.

  2. 2

    Parboil reserved scallops, and add to soup. Serve with small biscuits or oysterettes.

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Where this recipe comes from

Cream of Scallop Soup, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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