Ingredients

  • 3 Tbl. butter
  • 3 Tbl. flour
  • 1 1/2 quarts half & half
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. white pepper
  • 6 oz. crab meat (or more if you like)
  • 1/2 c. dry sherry
  • few drops hot sauce, try first to see if it needs it

Directions

Melt butter in the top of a double boiler, stir in the flour and cook for about three minutes, stirring constantly. Add the half & half, salt & pepper and stir-cook until the bisque has thickened.

Add the crab anfd sherry, reheat and this will provide four main-dish servings or six , first-course protions. Taste for hot sauce, it needed add at the end.

A bisque is any cream based shellfish soup.



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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: SeattleCookbook
Submitted By: Sheila Nelson
nednelson@msn
Crab Bisque