(by Shirley McNevich)
10 cups water
3 cups finely chopped celery
1 TBSP butter
1 TBSP flour
1 cup milk
salt and pepper to your taste
celery salt to your taste
1 cup milk (hot but not boiling)
In a saucepan add water and chopped celery--bring to a boil, then
cook until celery is very tender--drain. In a separate saucepan add
butter--melt. Add flour--stir. Slowly add 1 cup milk--cook and stir until
thick. Spoon the celery into a sieve over a bowl--push celery through
the sieve using a spoon--discard anything caught in the sieve. Pour
the bowl of celery into the saucepan with the milk mixture--stir. Add
salt, pepper and celery salt to your taste--stir. Keep the heat on
simmer, and simmer the celery soup for 10 minutes. Add the cup of
hot milk to the celery soup--stir and cook until hot.
 
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This recipe is from Shirley McNevich's first Mom's Best Recipes Volume 5. Published here with permission.
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