Jenny Lind Soup

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Jenny Lind Soup
Type Soup
Main ingredients Rutabaga, chicken stock, roux, Gruyère cheese, sage, egg yolks, heavy cream, egg whites

Jenny Lind soup is a soup named for popular 19th-century singer Jenny Lind. [1] It is typically a thick mixture with the consistency of wallpaper paste.

Contents

The dish is made from mashed rutabaga or sago, [1] chicken stock thickened with a roux, Gruyère cheese, sage, egg yolks, [1] and heavy cream, [1] and topped with beaten egg whites. (This topping, unfamiliar to many, is a common tradition in French cuisine de famille, as it uses up the whites left over from using the yolks as a thickener).

Leopold Bloom, a character in James Joyce's Ulysses , fantasizes about it while lunching in the Ormond: "Jenny Lind soup: stock, sage, raw eggs, half-pint of cream. For creamy dreamy."

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References

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