ABC of Soup Making

Posted by Liz Moore on Feb 21st, 2008 | one comment

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Various herbs vegetables required purpose mg soups gravies. principal are, Scotch barley, pearl barley, wheat flour, oatmeal, bread-raspings, pease, beans, rice, vermicelli, macaroni, isinglass, potato-mucilage, mushroom mushroom ketchup, champignons, parsnips, carrots, beetroot, turnips, garlic, shalots onions. Sliced onions, fried butter flour till browned, rubbed sieve, excellent heighten colour flavour brown soups sauces, form basis fine relishes furnished cook. drier onion, stronger flavour. Leeks, cucumber, burnet vinegar; celery celery-seed pounded. latter, th equally strong, impart delicate sweetness fresh vegetable; ud substitute, flavour corrected addition bit sugar. Cress-seed, parsley, common thyme, lemon thyme, orange thyme, knotted marjoram, sage, mint, winter savoury, basil. fresh green basil seldom procured, fine flavour soon lost, bt preserving extract pouring wine fresh leaves.

For seasoning soups, bay-leaves, tomato, tarragon, chervil, burnet, allspice, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, mace, black white pepper, essence anchovy, lemon-peel, juice, Seville orange-juice, taken. lr imparts finer flavour tn lemon, acid mh milder. materials, wine, mushroom ketchup, Harvey’s sauce, tomato sauce, combined various proportions, are, ingredients, manipulated io endless variety excellent soups gravies. Soups, wh intended constitute principal meal, cy ought flavoured sauces, oy designed ge relish particular dish.