Chicken Puree Soup
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 funt beef
- 1/5 funt veal shank
- 2 chicken
- 1 bunch greens
- 1/4 funt butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 stakan thick cream
- 1/2 stakan pearl barley
- 2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Boil beef and veal shank bouillon; skim, add the cleaned chicken, greens, and salt.
- When the chicken is soft, take out the flesh; return skin and bones to the bouillon.
- Chop and pound the flesh with butter, rub through a sieve, and mix with rubbed pearl barley.
- Add a yolk-cream liaison, thin with strained bouillon, and heat very hot without boiling.
- Optionally enrich with butter; serve with pirozhki.