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Green Spelt Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 g green spelt flakes
• 1.5 l beef broth or water
• butter (a little)
• egg yolks (as desired)
• toasted bread slices, or sponge/semolina dumplings (as needed)

Instructions

1. For 4 people, allow for 125 g of green spelt flakes.
2. Cook beef broth, strain it, bring it back to a boil, and add the green spelt flakes mixed with cold water.
3. They will be soft after ¼ hour and, being very fine, can be eaten directly with the soup, or you can pass the soup through a sieve.
4. Serve over toasted bread slices or sponge/semolina dumplings.
5. If you cook the flakes in water instead of broth, add a piece of fresh butter and whisk in egg yolks before serving.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.