Crotopo Soup

Ingredients

• to taste clear soup
• ½ pound lean veal
• 3 ounces ham
• 1 egg yolk
• to taste salt
• to taste pepper
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• to taste french bread rolls
• to taste broth

Steps

1. Pound the veal in a mortar.
2. Add the ham with some fat in it, the egg yolk, salt, pepper, and very little nutmeg.
3. Pound some more.
4. Pass through a sieve.
5. Cut the rolls into slices.
6. Spread them with the meat mixture.
7. Place them in the oven.
8. Bake until colored.
9. Cut the rolls in halves or quarters.
10. Place them in a tureen.
11. Just before serving, pour a very good clear broth over them.