Curry Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Heat the leftover mock‑turtle soup in a pot.
If using more than 3 pints of soup, mix 1 tablespoon of curry powder with a little cold water; if using 1 quart, mix ½ tablespoon.
Stir the curry mixture into the soup when it is almost boiling.
Cook for 3 minutes, then serve.
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
- Mock-turtle soup
- Forms the base of the dish, supplying most of the liquid and body of the soup.
- Curry powder
- Adds the spiced flavour and aroma that define the soup.
The step that matters
Stirring the curry mixture into the nearly boiling soup. Mixing the curry powder with cold water first helps it disperse instead of clumping. Stirring it into hot soup spreads the spices evenly, and the brief heating softens the raw, dusty taste of the powder.
“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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