Easy Mushroom Soup Recipe

1/2 pound mushrooms
1/2 stick unsaltedbutter
1 small onion, diced
4 T flour
1 C beef broth
2 C half-and-half
salt, pepper
1/4 t nutmeg
1 bay leaf

Thinly slice the muhrooms.
Melt the butter in a heavy saute pan When the foam subsides, add the onion and saute until golden. Add the mushrooms and saute until brown.
Stir in the flour, and then slowly add the broth, stirring contastantly.

Heat the half-and-half i a saucepan or in the microwave. Add it to the mushrooms, along with the salt, pepper, nutmeg and bay leave.
Cook over low heat for 10 minutes, do not boil.
Remove the bay leaf and serve.
Serves 4.