Crab Soup With Sherry Recipe

Crab Soup With Sherry Ingredients:
1 tb	Shallot,finely minced
2 tb	Butter
1 ts	Flour
5 c	Milk,warm
1/4 ts	Worcestershire sauce
1/8 ts	White pepper
1 lb	Crab meat,flaked
1	Egg yolk,beaten
	Salt
1/2 c	Sherry,at room temperature
	Lightly salted whipped cream
	Paprika

Crab Soup With Sherry Instructions:

1.
Saute the shallots in the butter in the top of a double boiler over direct heat until very soft but not browned.
Stir in the flour.
Add the warm milk slowly, stirring as added.
Place over simmmering water, add Worcestershire sauce, pepper, and crab meat.
Let cook, stirring frequently, over, not in, simmering water for 15-20 minutes.
(May be made ahead at this point up to about 1 hour before serving.
) Cover and keep over hot water.
stirring occasionally.
2.
Add a little of the hot soup to the beaten egg yolks and stir mixture back into soup.
Season to taste with salt.
Add the sherry and heat to steaming hot.
3.
To serve, ladle soup into warm bowls.
Top each serving with a little whipped cream, sprinkle with paprika, and serve at once.

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