Gower Oyster Soup

Name: Gower Oyster Soup
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 4 dozen prepared oysters Croêtons of Fried bread; Salt and pepper; Pinch of mace; 2 tablespoons butter; 3 pints (1.7 litres) defatted mutton or lamb broth or stock; 2 tablespoons flour; 1 large onion, sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd on Britain & Ireland

By Keith Floyd

Published 1988

About

A traditional Welsh way of economically combining easily available local ingredients. You could, of course, use chicken stock; but with so many sheep in Wales, mutton or lamb was more normal.

Ingredients

1 large onion, sliced
Pinch of mace
Salt and pepper
3

Europe
United Kingdom
Starter
Soup
Wales

Method

Simmer the onion, mace, salt and pepper in the mutton broth for about 30 minutes, until the onion is quite soft. Strain the soup and reserve the liquor.

Heat the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour and gradually add the strained broth, stirring well to avoid lumps. When smooth, let it simmer very gently for 10 minutes, put the prepared oysters into a tureen or into individual bowls