She Crab Soup

Ingredients

1 slice leek
8 ribs celery
16 gr flour
1 fish stock
130 gr crabmeat
5 ml worcestershire sauce
2 egg yolks
1 onion
110 gr butter
6 gr tomato paste
950 ml chicken broth
65 gr crab roe
60 ml sherry
240 ml cream

Instructions

Melt butter in saucepan, add vegs., and simmer until tender. Mix flour, tomato paste and oregano. Stir well, add tovegs. Stir in chicken broth and fish stock. Boil 30 min., stirring occasionally. To this mixture, add crab roe, crabmeat, sherry, Worcestershire sauce, salt & 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, othe restaurants have come up with a good likeness of it, but not the original. Here is the original.