Peg Jenning's Whiskey-Flavored Crab Soup
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Course : Seafoods
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 4
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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                        -----soup-----
   1      pound         crab meat
     1/2  cup           milk
   2      tablespoons   butter
                        -----cream sauce-----
   3      tablespoons   butter
   3      tablespoons   flour
   2      cups          milk
   1 1/2  cups          cream -- heavy
   4      tablespoons   scotch whiskey
 

Preparation:

Heat crabmeat in milk and butter. Make cream sauce by cooking butter and flour together slowly for 2 minutes, then whisking in milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boil and whisk until smooth. Add cream; stir in crabmeat as soon as it simmers. When it is just at boiling point, stir in whiskey. Serve in heated cups with a sprinkling of parsley. No good cook is above profiting by another's mistakes. When his friend Mrs. Jennings added a splash of Scotch instead of using sherry in the crab soup she made for him. Beard didn't object to the flavor but did add her recipe to his lifetime collectio