Sovay's Profile

From: Northern England,

Joined: October 7th, 2012

About me: I've embarked on a mission to cook something new from every cookery book I own - currently 260 - and am planning to use my account here to keep track (thanks to rfb from Librarything for tipping me off to the existence of this site). I've made a couple of rules for myself: to cook the recipe as given, with no substitution or variation unless suggested by the author; and to try to pick a genuinely new dish from each book - in other words, as I've cooked many Leek and Potato Soups in my time, I don't get to count Leek and Potato Soup as a new dish just because I haven't used this specific recipe before (unless it has really significant differences from the usual versions).

Hodge Podge from Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book

Beef and vegetable soup with beer - turned out disappointingly bland. The recipe had no seasoning other than salt and pepper - having tried it, I added a stock cube and some Worcester sauce, which helped... read more >

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A Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium

By Good Housekeeping Institute
The Waverley Book Company - 1957

This is an old-school flour-thickened brown soup; I used ox kidney (since the recipe didn't specify the appropriate type) and a little of the dripping I saved from a braised oxtail. The flavour is pretty good although a couple of large flat mushrooms, or a dessert-spoon of dried ones, would be a nice addition. I'm not so keen on the texture and would reduce the flour a bit - I think the quantity of flour also dulls the flavour.

Impressively economical, though.

eta: I found that keeping overnight improved both the flavour and the consistency of the soup - so much so that I've added an extra star. Nevertheless I think next time I'll use a little less flour and some extra root vegetables, puree'd

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