How to cook birds’ nests as white as snow

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Curious Cookbook: Viper Soup, Badger Ham, Stewed Sparrows and 100 More Historic Recipes

By Peter Ross

Published 2012

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Swallows’ Nest Soup

This soup is in reality much simpler of preparation than its ambitious name would lead one to imagine. I give it here on account of its originality; and I think I may venture to say, that its principal merit, irrespective of its outlandish element, is due to the consommé employed in its preparation. For soup for 12 persons, steep,