Jenny Lind Soup


Jenny Lind soup is a soup named for popular 19th-century singer Jenny Lind. It is typically a thick mixture with the consistency of wallpaper paste.
The dish is made from mashed rutabaga or sago, chicken stock thickened with a roux, Gruyère cheese, sage, egg yolks, and heavy cream, and topped with beaten egg whites..

In popular culture

, a character in James Joyce's Ulysses, fantasizes about it while lunching in the Ormond: "Jenny Lind soup: stock, sage, raw eggs, half-pint of cream. For creamy dreamy."