German Beer Soup

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            FOOD FUNNY
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Thanks to Dawn Saxton of Danville, California for sending us this
classic food funny:

A young newlywed was preparing a ham for Christmas dinner. She
carefully cut off the end of the ham before placing it in the pan
for baking. Her husband asked her, "Why did you cut off the end of
the ham?"

And she replied, "I really don't know, but my mother always did, so
I thought you were supposed to."

Later, when talking to her mother, she asked her why she cut off the
end of the ham before baking it, and her mother replied, "I really
don't know, but that's the way my mom always did it."

A few weeks later while visiting her grandmother, the young woman
asked, "Grandma, why is it that you cut off the end of a ham before
you bake it?"

Her grandmother replied, "Well dear, it would never fit into my
baking pan."

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            TODAY'S RECIPE
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This week I'm catching up with the recipes that were supposed to be
in the editions that didn't get published because of the time I took
to take care of family matters. Here is the lineup for our week of
"Lost Recipes":

(Recipes in brackets are in the PLUS Edition only.)

Tuesday's Soup or Salad
German Beer Soup (Biersuppe)
[Leek Salad (Lauchsalat)]

Wednesday's Side Dish
Irish Cabbage and Bacon
[Colcannon]

Thursday's Entree
Irish Stew
[Dublin Coddle]

Friday's Dessert
Irish Jam Cake
[Tipsy Parson]

I think you will find this unusual soup so tasty and easy to make
that you might adopt it as a family favorite.

German Beer Soup (Biersuppe)

3 bottles or cans (12 oz, 375 ml each) beer
1/2 cup (125 ml) brown sugar
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup (125 ml) sour cream
1/2 tsp (2 ml) ground cinnamon
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Combine the beer and brown sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil
over high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Remove from the
heat. Whisk the egg yolks and sour cream together in a small bowl.
Stir in about 1/2 cup (125 ml) of the hot beer mixture, then stir
the egg mixture into the beer. Season with cinnamon, salt, and
pepper and stir over low heat - do not boil - until the soup is
slightly thickened. Serves 4 to 6.
Received on Tue Oct 4 12:29:26 2005