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Chestnut Soup

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Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Mace
  3. Rub
  4. Chestnuts
  5. Stock
  6. a pint of cream
  7. Salt
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Peel 1 qt.
  2. of large chestnuts and blanch them in hot water.
  3. Drain and rub off the inner skin and cook until tender in good stock, drain and rub them through a fine sieve.
  4. Add more stock and season with mace, cayenne and salt, and stir until it boils, then add 1/4 of a pint of cream.
  5. Serve at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
  • Colander