Grandmother’S Fish Soup

Ingredients

3 liters (quarts) fish stock
3 Tbs. butter
1 dl (1/3 cup) flour
5 dl (2 cups) buttermilk
4 apples
2 dl (3/4 cup) sour cream
2 carrots
1/4 leek
600 g (1 1/3 pounds) fish fillets
2 Tbs. chopped chives

Instructions

1) Bring the stock to a boil.

2) Melt the butter & stir in the flour.

3) Gradually add the boiling stock. Return to a boil & add the buttermilk. Simmer 30 min.

4) Peel & core the apples. Add to the soup & simmer about 15 min.

5) Strain & whisk in the sour cream.

6) Slice the carrot & leek & cook each separately until tender, about 6 & 1 min. respectively. Add to the soup.

7) Cut the fish into very thin slices & place in individual soup bowls or in a terrine.

8) Reheat the soup almost to boiling & pour over the fish.

9) Sprinkle with chives. Serve with flatbread. Enjoy!