She Crab Soup(From Charleston Receipts) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 Tbsp. butter
1 qt. milk
1/4 pt. cream, whipped
few drops onion juice
1/8 tsp. mace
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 c. flour
2 c. white crabmeat and crab eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. dry sherry

Preparation

Melt butter in top of double boiler and blend with flour until smooth.
Add milk gradually stirring constantly.
To this, add crabmeat and eggs and all seasonings except sherry.
Cook slowly over hot water for 20 minutes.
To serve place 1 tablespoon of warmed sherry in individual soup bowls, then add soup and top with whipped cream.
Sprinkle with paprika or finely chopped parsley.