Mushroom Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean the mushrooms with salt and a cloth, then wipe them dry.
Slice the mushrooms and add them to a pot of simmering water.
Simmer and finish
Cook for about 30 minutes.
If desired, stir in claret to enhance flavor or deepen the color.
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
- Mushrooms
- Release their flavor and body into the simmering water, forming the base of the soup.
- Claret
- Adds color and a deeper, wine-based flavor to the broth.
The step that matters
Wipe the mushrooms dry after cleaning. Mushrooms are porous and soak up water easily. Wiping them dry rather than rinsing or soaking keeps them from diluting the flavor and gives a more concentrated broth.
“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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