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Title: Catfish Soup
Categories: None
Yield: 1 Servings

8 Strips bacon
1 lg Onion; diced
4 Catfish; skinned and cut
-into chunks
2 c Water
4 Sprigs parsley; minced
Salt and pepper
1 tb Butter
2 tb Flour
1 c Milk or cream
4 Egg yolks

Fry bacon until crisp. Remove and drain on paper towel. Saute onion in the
fat. In a pot, cover fish pieces with water, add parsley, salt, pepper, and
simmer until fish is tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Add onions. Melt butter in a
saucepan, stir in the flour, and cook 1 minute. Turn off heat, whisk in
milk or cream and stir into fish and liquid.

Beat egg yolks, add 2 tablespoons of hot liquid to the yolks, then stir all
into the soup. Simmer a few minutes. Add crisp bacon, and serve. Serves
3-4.

Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 628 by "Joe"
on Jan 29, 1998