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Vegetable Marrow Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pare and slice the marrows.
Make the soup
Add the marrows to the boiling stock.
Cook until the marrows are almost mashed.
Press the mixture through a sieve.
Finish and serve
Just before serving, add the boiling cream and season with salt and white pepper.
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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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Cream + white peppertop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,439 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- Young vegetable marrows
- Provide the main body and flavour of the soup as they soften and break down.
- White stock
- Serves as the cooking liquid that softens the marrows and forms the soup base.
- Cream
- Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture when stirred in just before serving.
The step that matters
Cook until the marrows are almost mashed. Cooking long enough lets the marrow cell walls soften fully so the soup presses through the sieve smoothly. Stopping too early leaves lumps and a grainy texture.
“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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