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      Title: LETTUCE SOUP
 Categories: Soups, Vegetarian
      Yield: 6 servings
 
      2 T  Onion; minced
      1 T  Butter
      1 T  Flour
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Nutmeg
      1 ds Pepper
      4    Chicken bouillon cubes
  3 1/2 c  ;Water, boiling
      1 md Lettuce; shredded
      1    Egg yolk; slightly beaten
    1/2 c  Whipping cream
 
  Saute onion in butter until gently golden.  Stir in flour, salt, nutmeg 
  and pepper.  Dissolve bouillon cubes in boiling water; add to onion 
  mixture slowly.  Cook over medium heat.  Stir until thickened. Add 
  lettuce.  Cover and let cook 3 minutes. 

  Mix together egg yolk and cream.  Stir 1/4 cup soup into yolk-cream 
  mixture.  Pour mixture into soup, stirring constantly. Cook over low 
  heat, stirring, until soup comes to a boil.  Remove from heat.  Serve at 
  once. 

                     From Bon Appetit's "Too Busy To Cook", 1981
                     per Michelle Bass
                     Fidonet COOKING echo
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