Halibut Soup

Ingredients

• ¾ cup cold boiled halibut
• 1 pint milk
• 1 slice onion
• Blade of mace
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1½ tablespoons flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• Few grains pepper

Steps

1. Rub fish through a sieve. Scald milk with onion and mace. Remove seasonings, and add fish. Bind with half the butter and flour cooked together. Add salt, pepper, and the remaining butter in small pieces.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.