Cream of Shallot Soup with Whipped Bacon Cream, a recipe from the Worldwide Gourmet

Ingredients

• - 600 g (1 lb. 5 oz.) French Shallot s
• - 40 g (3 tbsp.) half-salted butter
• - 1 1/2 garlic cloves, peeled
• - 500 ml (2 cups) whole milk
• - Juice of half a lemon
• - Fleur de sel
• - 200 g (3/4 cup) heavy cream
• - 150 g (5 oz.) smoked bacon, coarsely chopped