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Dark Beer Soup with Milk

4 servings

Ingredients

• 0.75 l Dark beer, sweet
• Lemon peel (a little)
• 1 piece Cinnamon
• 1 heaping tbsp Potato flour
• 0.5 l Milk
• 3 pcs Egg yolk
• Salt and sugar (to taste)
• Snow dumplings or grated bread rolls (as needed)

Instructions

1. Place the dark beer with lemon peel and cinnamon over heat and cook until clear with the potato flour.
2. Pour into the tureen and keep warm, covered.
3. Boil the milk and whisk it, while boiling, with the egg yolk, then pour into the tureen with the beer, stirring thoroughly, and season with salt and sugar.
4. Serve with snow dumplings or grated bread rolls.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.