How long should the soup cook?

The root vegetables, onion and seasoning are sweated in butter and cooked with 1 liter of meat stock for half an hour. Then the soup is strained, thickened with butter and flour and brought to a boil. Reckon about an hour in total.

How do I keep the egg yolks from curdling?

The egg and stock are whisked in a separate pot and taken off the heat just as it begins to boil. Then the finished, thickened soup from the first pot is whisked in. The soup must not come to a rolling boil once the egg yolks have been added.

What is added to the soup at the end?

1 deciliter of sherry plus small meatballs or asparagus. The seasoning is sparing: one knife's tip of cayenne and one knife's tip of pepper.

Where does the recipe come from?

From Henriette Schønberg Erken's "Stor kokebok" from 1914, page 46. It is listed as a clear soup and calculated for six servings.

Gold Soup

Gold Soup ("gullsuppe") from Erken's Stor kokebok 1914: a clear, egg-enriched consommé where meat stock is cooked with half-browned butter, onion, pepper, cayenne and root vegetables, thickened with a butter-and-flour roux and finished by tempering egg yolks into stock. Seasoned with sherry and served with small meatballs or asparagus. It is named for the golden color the yolks and half-browned butter give it.

Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 46 (falt i det fri)

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About the dish

An egg-enriched "fine" soup from the soup chapter of Henriette Schønberg Erken's "Stor kokebok" (1914). The name comes from the golden color the egg yolks and the half-browned butter give it. Such egg-thickened stock soups were the first course of a fine dinner.

How to make it

1
Brown butter and onion
Half-brown 60 g of the butter together with the cut-up onion, pepper and cayenne.
2
Cook out the vegetables
Add the cleaned and cut-up roots (celeriac, rutabaga, carrot, parsley root) and pour in 1 liter of meat stock. Let it cook for half an hour, and strain the soup.
3
Make the roux
Wash the pot. Melt the rest of the butter, stir in the flour and thin with the strained soup. Bring it to a boil.
4
Enrich with egg yolks
Whisk the egg yolks together with the second liter of stock in another pot. Take it off the heat the moment it is about to boil, and whisk in the soup from the first pot.
5
Serve
Add the sherry and serve the soup with small meatballs or asparagus.

Changes from the original

Measurements are modernized (deciliters/liters/grams, knife's tip). The butter amount is given as a total (100 g), since the original's column is partly illegible in the source; 60 g is used for browning and the rest for the roux. "Kjøtkraft" = meat stock/broth.

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From1914 1949 Modernised

To1914 1949 Modernised

Modernised → 1949 (proofread, p. 58)~81% of the text changedremovedadded

100 g gr. smør ~~(60 g til bruning, resten til jevningen).~~ 1 løk 50 ~~g hvetemel.~~ gr. hvetemel 2 l l. kjøttkraft ~~(deles i to porsjoner à 1 liter).~~ 2 ~~stk eggeplommer. 1 knivsspiss cayennepepper. 1 knivsspiss pepper.~~ eggeplommer 1 ~~stk løk.~~ knivsodd kajenne 1 ~~skive sellerirot.~~ — pepper 1 skive ~~kålrabi. 2 stk gulrot.~~ selleri 1 ~~stk persillerot.~~ — kålrabi ½ gulerot ½ persillerot 1 ~~dl sherry. små kjøttboller eller asparges (til å servere i suppen). Halvbrun~~ del. hvitvin. 60 ~~g av smøret sammen~~ gr. smør halvbrunes med ~~den oppdelte~~ løken, pepper og ~~cayenne.. Legg i~~ kajenne, til settes de rensede ~~og oppdelte røttene (sellerirot, kålrabi, gulrot, persillerot) og spe med~~ røtter samt 1 liter kjøttkraft. ~~La det koke i en halv~~ Dette koker ½ time, ~~og sil suppen.. Vask gryten. Smelt~~ suppen siles. Gryten gjøres ren, resten av ~~smøret, rør inn~~ smøret has i og smeltes, irøres melet og ~~spe med~~ tilsettes den silte ~~suppen. Gi det~~ suppe, gis et ~~oppkok.. Visp eggeplommene sammen med den andre literen kraft i~~ opkok. I en annen ~~gryte. Ta den av varmen straks~~ gryte vispes eggeplommene og den ~~er i ferd med å~~ annen liter kraft, avtas idet det skal koke, og ~~visp inn~~ ivispes suppen fra den første ~~gryten.. Tilsett sherryen og server suppen med~~ gryte. Tilsettes vinen, små kjøttboller eller asparges.

Note on Modernised

Mål er modernisert (desiliter/liter/gram, knivsodd → knivsspiss). Smørmengden er oppgitt samlet (100 g), da originalens kolonne er delvis uleselig i kilden; 60 g brukes til bruning, resten til jevningen. «Kjøtkraft» = kjøttkraft/buljong.

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How long should the soup cook?: The root vegetables, onion and seasoning are sweated in butter and cooked with 1 liter of meat stock for half an hour. Then the soup is strained, thickened with butter and flour and brought to a boil. Reckon about an hour in total.
How do I keep the egg yolks from curdling?: The egg and stock are whisked in a separate pot and taken off the heat just as it begins to boil. Then the finished, thickened soup from the first pot is whisked in. The soup must not come to a rolling boil once the egg yolks have been added.
What is added to the soup at the end?: 1 deciliter of sherry plus small meatballs or asparagus. The seasoning is sparing: one knife's tip of cayenne and one knife's tip of pepper.
Where does the recipe come from?: From Henriette Schønberg Erken's "Stor kokebok" from 1914, page 46. It is listed as a clear soup and calculated for six servings.

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