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Fieldfare Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 piece Fieldfares (thrushes)
• Butter (plenty) (a little)
• Salt (a little)
• Celery, carrots, and onions, in slices (a little)
• 2 tbsp Flour
• 2 l Beef broth
• Sponge or semolina dumplings (as needed)

Instructions

1. For 4 people, allow 4 fieldfares, slowly roast them in plenty of butter, lightly salted, in a tightly closed dish until tender.
2. Slice the breast meat finely and set aside.
3. Steam the crushed bone framework with sliced celery, carrots, and onions in the roasting butter, dust with flour, and pour in 2 liters of beef broth.
4. Simmer slowly for one hour, skim off the fat, strain the soup through a sieve, and cook sponge or semolina dumplings until tender in it.
5. Serve over the breast meat and dumplings.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.