Ls Ayres Tea Room Chicken Velvet Soup Recipe

Too many memories to share here but their chicken velvet soup stands out.

Ls ayres tea room chicken velvet soup recipe.

The tea room opens each year for holiday dining until jan. Melt butter in saucepan. Ayres tearoom was known for its chicken velvet soup a cream soup with no vegetables visible and chopped whitemeat chicken. Ayres tea room recipes recollection.

My mother used to take me there when i was a little girl in the 60 s and this was my very favorite soup of all time. Ayres tea room 3 4 cup butter 3 4 cup of flour 1 cup warm milk 1 pint hot chicken stock 1 cup warm cream 1 quart chicken stock. After cooking well add remaining ingredients. Cut up onion and celery and puree in food processor.

Add flour to melted butter. Add celery and onion puree recude heat to medium and cook until throughly softened but not browned. L s ayres tea room chicken velvet soup. The store closed in 1992.

This soup was my favorite item on the menu. It has been a classic and favorite for 110 years. Ayres department store in downtown indianapolis. Combine butter and flour blending well.

I worked a couple blocks away and frequented the tea room for lunch. 7 and features many l s. This recipe takes me back to my childhood in the 1950 s when my mother and i would take an occasional shopping trip to indianapolis we lived in anderson in and have lunch in the ayre s tearoom. I wanted to share the recipe for this beautiful dish.

Chicken velvet soup l s. Family cookbooks are an important way to preserve our mealtime traditions for future generations with individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook. Ayres tea room recipes and recollections published by the indiana state museum is. Cook for 1 minute over medium high heat.

This is the exact recipe once used by the tea room at l. Add warm milk pint of hot chicken stock and warm cream. Combine milk 1 pint of broth and the cream in a large pot. You can get a cup or a bowl or have soup with half a sandwich.

This was served in the tea room of l s ayres a well known department store in downtown indianapolis.