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White Wine Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp Starch or fine flour
• 3 pcs Egg yolks
• 0.5 bottle White wine
• 0.5 bottle Water
• Sugar (to taste)
• 0.5 pcs Lemon, juice
• Egg whites (for foam dumplings) (a little)
• Sugar and cinnamon for sprinkling (a little)

Instructions

1. Mix starch or fine flour with the egg yolks, white wine, and an equal amount of water.
2. Sweeten well with sugar, season with lemon juice, and beat vigorously over the heat just before boiling.
3. Pour the soup into a tureen and stir for a few more minutes.
4. Using a tablespoon, place small dumplings made from the beaten egg whites on top of the soup, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and quickly cover the tureen to allow the foam to cook.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.