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
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