Cream-of-mushroom Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb button mushrooms or 1 lb portabella mushrooms or 1 lb oyster mushroom
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 quart chicken stock
• 1 quart heavy cream
• cognac, to taste
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 chop the mushrooms into a fine dice.
• 2 place in a large sauce pot with the butter and saute until moist of the liquid in the mushrooms is cooked off.
• 3 sprinkle with flour over the mushroom mixture.
• 4 stir while cooking for a few minutes, then add the chicken stock and mix well.
• 5 allow the mixture to reduce over a medium flame to half its original volume (about 30 minutes).
• 6 refrigerate until just before dinner.
• 7 before serving, heat mixture while adding the heavy cream.
• 8 add cognac and salt and pepper to taste.