Biersuppe (German Beer Soup)

Posted by LladyRusty at recipegoldmine.com 1/15/2002 5:55 pm

Source: ichef.com - from D'Schwaebisch' Kuche', by Aegidius Kolb and Leonhard Lidel, Posted and translated by Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 9/92

Note: From Grandmother's more thrifty times.

1 1/2 tablespoons (heaping) flour
3 1/2 tablespoons butter
1 liter beer
1 small piece cinnamon
Sugar to taste
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup plus 1/2 tablespoon milk
Toasted white (French style) bread

Brown the flour in the butter, then add beer. Add cinnamon and sugar and bring to a boil. Whisk together the egg yolk and milk and stir into the hot (but no longer boiling) beer. Strain, and serve with toasted slices of bread.