What's your favourite soup?

Sluffy wrote:Always called anything with barley in a broth.

My mam used to cook stuff like that with meat (lamb chops I have in mind but I'm probably wrong) with vegetables and barley in it and again my dad and eldest brother absolutely loved it.

Again, it wasn't for me, I didn't like the bones in it and my mam god bless her used to cook me something else instead.

wanderlust wrote:

Sluffy wrote:Always called anything with barley in a broth.

My mam used to cook stuff like that with meat (lamb chops I have in mind but I'm probably wrong) with vegetables and barley in it and again my dad and eldest brother absolutely loved it.

Again, it wasn't for me, I didn't like the bones in it and my mam god bless her used to cook me something else instead.

Thick pea and ham soup ideally made with a hock is indeed the breakfast of champions but surely you must have enjoyed barley and other pulses in stews? Loads of different stews. Cowheel and barley with bay leaf, peppercorns etc made a glutinous carrot-coating blob that was the nectar of the Gods IMHO. Bones, bits, juice and barley - you knew you'd had a proper dinner.

Hip Priest wrote:I love soup, always have done and will dip my bread soldiers in virtually any soup going. Favourites are Stilton & Broccoli, Mulligatawny, Pea & Ham, Lentil, Mushroom, Chicken,Five Bean,virtually anything in fact. Special shout out goes to Heinz cream of Tomato with thick, fresh granary bread on a cold winters day after getting home from the match..

Sluffy wrote:

Bay leaf and peppercorns????

You certainly didn't come from round my way - in fact people used to make nettle soup, that was all we could afford back then, can't say I ever had it though.

I didn't say I didn't like the barley, I said I didn't like the bones from the meat.  they sort of broke up somehow and you always seem to have a sliver of bone in every mouthful you had.  In fact an empty plate was always put on the centre of the table for us all to put our bones on.

I didn't mind cowheel and dumplings so much as you could see the bones in that and my favourite used to be tripe and mash in a kind of milky sauce but we never had anything as pretentious of bay leaf and peppercorn where I came from - we simply couldn't afford such things.

Norpig wrote:Come on Nat, whats your favourite soup? I know you can't wait to contribute to such an important topic 

wanderlust wrote:

Sluffy wrote:

Bay leaf and peppercorns????

You certainly didn't come from round my way - in fact people used to make nettle soup, that was all we could afford back then, can't say I ever had it though.

I didn't say I didn't like the barley, I said I didn't like the bones from the meat.  they sort of broke up somehow and you always seem to have a sliver of bone in every mouthful you had.  In fact an empty plate was always put on the centre of the table for us all to put our bones on.

I didn't mind cowheel and dumplings so much as you could see the bones in that and my favourite used to be tripe and mash in a kind of milky sauce but we never had anything as pretentious of bay leaf and peppercorn where I came from - we simply couldn't afford such things.

Bay leaves are free and peppercorns cost peanuts. You'll be telling me you didn't have salt either next.

Norpig wrote:Come on Nat, whats your favourite soup? I know you can't wait to contribute to such an important topic 

Sluffy wrote:

Bay leaves certainly weren't free where I lived