Description

Richard Gillmore from The Gilmore Girls loved this soup that his mother used to make him. It's an old fashioned, delicious soup with layers of flavor and no turtles!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lb. ground beef*
• 3 oz. ginger snaps
• 2 c. very hot water
• 1/2 onion, finely chopped or grated
• 1 c. ketchup
• 1/4 c. Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 t. ground black pepper
• 5 or 6 thin slices of lemon (seeds discarded)
• 3 hard boiled eggs, finely chopped
• 1 T. sherry wine
• kosher salt

Steps

1. Heat a dry (no oil) 4 quart soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the ground beef; brown, chopping up the clumps as you go, until the meat is fine, not clumpy.
2. While the meat is browning, place the ginger snaps in a heat-proof bowl; pour 2 cups very hot water over them; set aside to soak.
3. When the meat has cooked, drain any excess fat. If there’s a pool of orange fat in the pot, skim some off.