Ingredients
1 cup pitted ripe olives, preferably imported brine
3 cup chicken broth
1 1/2 cup minced onions
1 cl garlic, minced
1 egg
1 cup light cream
1 tsp thick bottled steak sauce
1/4 cup dry sherry
Directions
Either slice the olives wafer-thin or chop them into bits in a food
processor. Place chicken stock in a medium saucepan and bring to a
boil. Add onions and garlic. Simmer 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat,
strain out onion and garlic bits and discard (or save to add the pot
when making a batch of stock). Return soup to the pan and add
olives. Beat egg in a bowl and slowly add a cup of hot soup while
continuing to beat, and taking care not to curdle the egg. Pour
soup/egg mixture into the soup. Add light cream, steak sauce and
sherry. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Serve chilled in
chilled soup bowls.
Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Fruit; Soup
The History of Recipes
We can follow the history of written recipes far back into the far past, in fact as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and maybe further still. However, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
Later on, in The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius created some documents showing how to cook the recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. In his publication, Apicius tells us how the meals were divided into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and afters, known in latin as `Gustatio, Primae Mensae and Secundae Mensae`. Additionally, he recounts how the cooks of his times were skilled in the use of a good variety of herbs and spices, including a few that will be familiar to modern cooks such as thyme, rue and parsley. Later on in the 1400s, people returning from the crusades brought back many new foods and herbs from the East, including coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. These new foods and spices caused an eruption in cookery books, some of which still exist in private collections. By the time we get to the 20th century, cookbooks are starting to become popular mostly as a result of increased literacy, people having more leisure time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Chilled Black Olive Soup recipe.
