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Brown Flour Soup or Mock Chocolate Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp wheat flour, fine
• 1 l milk
• sugar (a little)
• lemon zest (a little)
• salt (a little)
• 2 pcs egg yolk

Instructions

1. Dry roast the flour on a baking sheet in the oven or in a clean, non-rusty, non-greasy pan over low heat, stirring continuously until it's evenly browned.
2. Once cooled, mix the flour with a little cold milk or cold water to form a thin paste.
3. Bring the milk to a boil with sugar, lemon zest, and a little salt.
4. Add the thin flour paste while continuously stirring, let the soup cook, and then whisk in the egg yolk.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.