A Story of Soup
Today I made soup. One of my favourite foods. I grew up on a lot of soup. The Germans have a word for creating soup. EINTOPF, it means one pot. At the end of the week everything leftover goes into one pot and it becomes soup. The origin of the word soup is suppa. An old word, before Latin even. In German the word for soup is still suppe. It means "to sop".
Until bread was invented there was NO soup. Only a thick kind of gruel at best. Made from pounded grains or plants with maybe some meat cooked into it.( It doesn't sound good.) The "sop" part of soup is the thick slice of bread that was placed on the bottom of the bowl and then the soup ladled over it to sop it up.
Soups could be very, very nutritious when cooked over a length of time to extract the goodness of the marrow in the bones and stuff. The soup became a staple food in most medieval homes. They could afford to make soup from basically the scraps of leftover food, especially the bones which couldn't be eaten and were until then thrown to the dogs.
What is most interesting is that the invention of soup also beget the first restaurant. The word comes from the root "to restore". A Frenchman had the brilliant idea to make a nutritious soup and sell it to the weary travellers who needed something with sustenance to restore their energy.
Now you understand my little drawing. No criticism please. Drawing on the tablet isn't the easiest thing to do but I am trying. As good as it gets folks.
A little bit of fun - "oui?"
Types of Soup
Bouillon -concentrated
brown stock
Consomme -clarified
brown stock
Broths -clear
Jellied -made from
bones and clarified
Vegetable -prepared
with or without meat
Puree -with/without
cream
Bisques -shellfish based
cream soup (my fave)
Chowders -thick, fish
meat and vegie base
Fruit soups - huh???
what ?? (if you are
European you know.
I grew up on this.
Delicious !!! )
