Soups made with cream and mushrooms are much older than cream of crab soup canned variety. Canned cream of mushroom soup has been described as “America’s béchamel”. Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors.
Thanksgiving Slumming with Cream of Mushroom Soup”. Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup is America’s béchamel. Bear Cookin’: The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods. The term ‘bisque’ is also sometimes used to refer to cream-based soups that do not contain seafood, in which the pre-cooked ingredients are pureed or processed in a food processor or a food mill. Bisque is a method of extracting flavor from imperfect crustaceans not good enough to send to market. In an authentic bisque, the shells are ground to a fine paste and added to thicken the soup.
Julia Child even remarked, “Do not wash anything off until the soup is done because you will be using the same utensils repeatedly and you don’t want any marvelous tidbits of flavor losing themselves down the drain. Seafood bisque is traditionally served in a low two-handled cup on a saucer or in a mug. Potage fait d’un coulis de crustacés. Soup made from a crustacean coulis, e.
Soup Might Not Count as a Meal, but Bisque Certainly Does”. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 2. This creamy soup is fast, easy and very tasty. Corn really stars in this delectable recipe, and crabmeat makes it a little more special. It will get high marks from both busy cooks and lovers of flavorful homemade food. In a blender, puree half of the corn mixture.
If desired, top with fresh cracked pepper, chives and crushed red pepper flakes. Soup is the homemade replacement for any Condensed Cream of Soup recipes. Get excited people, because this recipe is awesome! It works for any type of cream of soups including cream of chicken, cream of broccoli, and cream of mushroom, and the best part is that you probably already have all of these ingredients.