French Garlic Soup

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 head garlic
• 8 sage leaves
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 9 cups water
• 1/8 teaspoon ground pepper
• 4 eggs
• 4 slices french bread
• 4 tablespoons gruyere cheese, grated

Recipe

• 1 peel all the cloves of garlic.
• 2 in a large sauce pan put all except 1 of the cloves (unchopped) along with the sage, salt & water. brink to a boil & simmer for 20 minutes.
• 3 remove garlic cloves & discard the sage. crush the garlic & return it to the sauce pan, & add the pepper.
• 4 simmer for another 2 minutes, then poach the eggs in the soup.
• 5 meanwhile, rub the slices of bread with the remaining garlic clove & toast them in the oven.
• 6 when one side is toasted, put a tablespoon of gruyere on the untoasted side of each of the slices & then toast that side also.
• 7 in each of 4 bowls, put a piece of toast with cheese, put an egg on top of the cheese, & then the soup is served on top of that.