Egg Balls for Soup

Original Recipe

Take the yolks of six hard-boiled eggs and half a tablespoonful of wheat flour, rub them smooth with the yolks of two raw eggs and a teaspoonful of salt; mix all well together; make it in balls, and drop them into the boiling soup a few minutes before taking it up. Used in green turtle soup.

Ingredients

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  • 1 tablespoonful of wheat flour
  • 2 raw eggs and a teaspoonful of salt
  • 1 few minutes before taking it up

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Instructions

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    Take the yolks of six hard-boiled eggs and half a tablespoonful of wheat flour, rub them smooth with the yolks of two raw eggs and a teaspoonful of salt; mix all well together; make it in balls, and drop them into the boiling soup a few minutes before taking it up.

  2. 2

    Used in green turtle soup.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)