How To Make Egg Drop Soup — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

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I find a bowl of egg drop soup to be one of the most soothing and comforting dishes ever invented. You really only need three base ingredients to make it (two in a pinch). And yet breathing in that steamy broth and savoring the first spoonful of silky egg curd — all my troubles immediately fade away.

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