Soup recipes

schrodie

I recall when I was a kid (back in the 60s/70s) my mother used to make what she called 'Poor Man's Broth' which is a simple, tasty but best of all cheap meal.

All it is is potatoes cubed, onions chopped, water and beef dripping and a touch of gravy browning.

Just throw the pots and the onions into boiling water add a lump of dripping (this apparently is why it's a poor man's broth!!) then add the browning to darken it up. It great with French bread and if you like Worcester Sauce.

pigpen

we had something similar made with water, onions, oxo cubes, pepper, and a couple of handfuls of broth mix.. you know with lentils, pearl barley, split peas etc. .. sometimes.. we got bread with it!!!!! They would make a huge cauldron full and add to it so we probably ate from the same pan for about a week..

Neither me nor my younger brother and 2 younger sisters who were subject to this eat soup..

And we were 70's/80's children of unemployed chain smokers who spent money on cigarettes and broth mix!.. thankfully we all got a decent hot meal at school

Olliebeak

My mum used to do something similar for a Thursday night's tea - 'bally-ann' day in our house!

She used to thinly slice a couple of onions and potatoes (a bit thicker), then sautee them off in what remained of the lard in the bottom of the chip pan (she would have been adding sausage fat etc to the chip pan during the week :eek: but by then it was quite tasty lol).

(Sometimes on a Thursday morning, if there was no margarine, we would have used dripping from the chip pan to spread on our toast before going to school!)

Once the onions were a bit translucent, she would add a couple of oxo's dissolved in boiling water and let it all cook away until the stock had reduced down and the pots and onions were cooked through. We had dry bread with it to soak up the gravy.

The aroma coming from our kitchen was very :drool: - the meal itself, though very passable, didn't taste quite as good. Neighbours all thought we were having chops (on a Thursday!) or something like that :rotfl:.

Fruball

I do a similar thing.... lambless hotpot.

I layer up potatoes and onions in a pyrex dish. Then I mix up a Knorr lamb stock cube with a tbsp of cornflour with required amount of water. Pour it over potatoes and onions (plus thinly sliced carrots if I have them in) and bake in the oven.

Its really delicious

Primrose

Frugal - I love the idea of your lambless hotpot. I'd love to try it but I can see my OH looking at it on his plate and saying "Where's the bl**dy meat?" :rotfl:

zippychick

thanks for the recipe Schrodie.

I'll add it to soup recipes later to keep all the recipes together
thanks
Zip

Gingham_Ribbon

We used to have 'soup n puddin' night, which I still do with my family now.

We can stretch to custard with our pudding though. As a child, we had jelly and milk.

adelight

I do something like that with potatoes, onions, stock cube, worcester sauce, bit of gravy powder and whatever odd bits of veg are in the fridge. It's delicious

Paulie'sGirl

Hi,

I do something similar to the lambless hotpot called Boulangerie potatoes.

Layer sliced potatoes with chopped onions in a greased baking dish, pour over a made up stock (I like ham stock best) and a bit of milk. Add a few dots of butter and bake at 180 til the potatoes are done.

Simple but delicious, doesn't need any meat, though it is good with leftover roast meat

PGxx

iwilldoitthistime

Hi

Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way of removing the skin from peppers? I want to make red pepper soup, and the last time i did it, I grilled them until the skin went black then peeled the skins.

Also - do the ingredients - tinned tomatoes, chilli, onion and red peppers sound right for soup? Do you think there is anything else I may have missed?

thanks

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