Soup

Soup

  April 28, 2020    AnnS

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Soup is a primarily liquid food which can be served hot or cold, that is made my combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock or water.  It can be served as a starter to a meal or as the main meal itself.
Over the years it has become more versatile and is often eaten for lunch when working.  Cup a Soups are very popular in the office (although in my opinion they arev ery tasteless). There are so many varieties now of soup to either make or buy.  You can't beat a bowl of home-made soup.

As a child growing up in the 60's Mum would make her own soup - we would often say she could make soup out of nothing and it always tasted amazing.  Two popular brand names of soup were Baxters and Campbells.  They were very traditional making Tomato or Mushroom soup.  Campbells made famous their condensed soup in a tin which required the addition of water or milk. Baxters now have an amazing range of flavours which can be checked out here:  https://www.baxters.com/

Evidence of the existence of soup can be found as far back as about 20,000 BC. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of clay vessels). Animal hides and watertight baskets of bark or reeds were used before this. To boil the water hot rocks were used. 

The word soup comes from French soupe ("soup", "broth").

I have made a lot of soup over the years, taking it to work and enjoying it with a bread roll for lunch with some fruit.   Soup makes you feel fuller for longer.

I have made soup on the hob, in the slow cook and microwave.  Nowadays I use my soup maker.  I just chop up all the ingredients, add stock, put on the lid, press the button and all done in 20 minutes.  I usually make enough for two lunches.

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A favourite recipe right now is: Lentil and Tomato

Ingredients

1 chopped red onion

1 large carrot - chopped

1/2 cup dried red lentils

1 can chopped tomatoes

1tsp. Harissa paste

Vegetable stock cube

1 L boiling water

Method

Add the ingredients to the Soup Maker.

Press the SMOOTH mode

Press START - 21 minutes which will cook and blend the ingredients

Serve with Sourdough Bread which I make using the easy recipe from

http://homejoys.blogspot.com/2012/02/wild-yeast-hearth-bread.html    OR

http://homejoys.blogspot.com/2014/05/hearty-grain-sourdough-bread.html

               

Tomato and Lentil Soup

Soup Maker