PRAWN SOUP

Cooking Adventures: PRAWN SOUP

Ingredients:

2 quarts of fish stock or water

2 pints of prawns

The crumbs of a French roll

Anchovy sauce or mushroom ketchup to taste

1 blade of mace

1 pint of vinegar

A little lemon-juice

Cooking Adventures Guides:

First, pick out the tails of the prawns, put the bodies in a stew pan with 1 blade of mace, 1/2 pint of vinegar, and the same quantity of water; stew them for 1/4 hour, and strain off the liquor. After that, put the fish stock or water into a stew pan; add the strained liquor, pound the prawns with the crumb of a roll moistened with a little of the soup, rub them through a Tammy, and mix them by degrees with the soup; add ketchup or anchovy sauce to taste, with a little lemon-juice. When it is well cooked, put in a few picked prawns; let them get thoroughly hot. Prawn Soup is ready to serve. If not thick enough, put in a little butter and flour.

Time needed is1 hour.