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Charleston She Crab Soup

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Ingredients:

  1. 2 tablespoons - butter divided
  2. 2 tablespoons - all-purpose flour
  3. 1 cups - milk
  4. 1 1/2 cups - half-and-half cream
  5. 4 teaspoons - finely-grated onion
  6. 3/4 teaspoons - Worcestershire sauce
  7. - salt and white pepper to taste
  8. 1/4 teaspoons - ground mace
  9. 1/4 teaspoons - red cayenne pepper
  10. 1/4 teaspoons - grated lemon zest (rind)
  11. 1 1/2 pounds - flaked blue crab meat (OR dungeness, snow, king or rock crab)
  12. 1/4 cups - crab roe (OR 2 hard-cooked egg yolks)
  13. 3 tablespoons - dry sherry
  14. 1 tablespoons - finely chopped fresh parsley leaves

Directions:

In a large, heavy pot over low heat, melt butter; add flour and blend until smooth. Slowly add milk and half-and-half cream, stirring constantly with a whisk; cook until thickened.

Add onion, Worcestershire sauce, salt, white pepper, mace, cayenne pepper and lemon zest. Bring just to a boil, stirring constantly.

Reduce heat to low, add crabmeat and crab roe or crumbled hard-cooked egg yolks; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes (if soup appears about to boil, remove pan from heat for a minute or so, then return).

Remove from heat and add sherry, stirring to mix. Let sit for 3 to 4 minutes before serving.

To serve, pour the soup into individual heated soup bowls, dividing the crab meat and roe equally into each bowl. Sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately.


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