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Garbures

A French vegetable soup made with leftover gravies and assorted vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Garbures

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Collect the gravies from the week on Thursday evening.

  2. On Friday, combine the gravies in a pot.

  3. Add a variety of vegetables and season to taste.

  4. Simmer until the vegetables are tender and the flavors meld.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Gravy from the week
Forms the flavorful liquid base that carries the whole dish.
Vegetables (variety unspecified)
Add body, sweetness and texture as they soften during simmering.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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