Biersuppe (Beer Soup)

Title:
Biersuppe (Beer Soup)

Yield:
4 Servings

Categories:
Soups,
German




Ingredients:





 1 1/2 tb (heaping) flour


    50 g  Butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)


     1 l  Beer


     1 sm Piece of cinnamon


          Sugar to taste


     2    Egg yolk


   1/8 l  Milk (1/2 cup plus 1/2 Tbsp)


          Toasted white [French] bread






 From grandmother's more thrifty times; rarely encountered today.


 


 Brown the flour in the butter, then add beer.  Add cinnamon and sugar and


 bring to a boil.  Whisk together the egg yolk and milk and stir into the


 hot (but no longer boiling) beer. Strain, and serve with toasted slices of


 bread.


 


 Serves 4.


 


 From:  D'SCHWAEBISCH' KUCHE' by Aegidius Kolb and Leonhard Lidel, Allgaeuer


 Zeitungsverlag, Kempten. 1976. (Translation/Conversion: Karin Brewer)


 Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 9/92


 


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