Crab Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 c. margarine
1/4 c. chopped celery
1/4 c. flour
6 drops Tabasco sauce
16 oz. flaked imitation crab meat (3 1/2 c.)
5 c. skim milk or 1% milk
1/4 c. sliced onion or scallions

Preparation

Melt margarine.
Add celery and cook for 3 minutes.
Add flour and stir over low heat until frothy.
Cook and stir about 3 minutes.
Stir often to prevent scorching.
Add Tabasco sauce. Gradually stir in milk.
Increase heat and bring to a boil. Reduce immediately so it simmers.
Add crab meat; return to simmer and cook about 3 minutes until crab meat is hot.
Stir in scallions.