Chestnut Soup

Ingredients

• Lean ground beef, lamb, or deer meat
• Cayenne pepper
• Salt
• A maximum of one quart of water for every pound of meat
• A minimum of one quart of chestnuts, pre boiled and peeled
• Butter
• Flour

Directions

1. First, prepare a soup of your choice of meat, in whichever manner you prefer.
2. Season with cayenne pepper.
3. Bring the mixture to a boil, continuously skimming from the top of the mixture, until the meat fall from the bone.
4. While the mixture is boiling, cut small pieces of butter and roll them into the flour.
5. Strain the mixture, and in a new pot, add in the chestnuts as well as the butter/flour pieces prepared in the previous step.
6. Before serving, bring the soup to a boil for ten additional minutes.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Travis Shaw
Louisiana Anthology
May 9, 2020