Mushroom Soup
What you need
- mushrooms
- 1 onion
- butter
- a splash of cream
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Fry sliced mushrooms and onion in butter until deep brown — longer than feels right. Add two cups of water, simmer ten minutes, blend, stir in cream.
How it feels to make
The pan goes from pale and wet to brown and dry, and that's when the smell arrives.
Mom wrote on the back
Let them brown properly. Pale mushrooms make grey soup and grey soup tastes like nothing.