The Soup Book: 200 Recipes, Season by Season

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I realize this violates my second criterion above, but many are incredibly concise, without elaborate ingredient lists. Kimoto-Kahn stays true to her Japanese roots with lots of traditional recipes but she also shows you how easy it can be to make your own versions at home.

Every day, Squirrel, Duck and Cat slice up a pumpkin from their pumpkin patch, stir in some water and salt to make the perfect pumpkin soup. Each recipe comes with estimated timings, handy tips and freezing times so you can batch-cook for the month ahead. Traditional recipes, with their native ingredients and time-honored techniques, are often passed down for reasons beyond just their taste, such as their medicinal and nourishing qualities. There are few things more comforting than making a real French onion soup - slowly cooked, caramelised onions that turn mellow and sweet in a broth laced with white wi.This recipe, given to me by Sarah Randell, the Editor of The Collection, is based on a version of Tom Yum s. You can learn to make simplified versions that take less than an hour, versions using a pressure cooker or crockpot, and the more traditional versions, slowly simmered for hours upon hours on the stovetop. Butter beans, boiled on their own (as I remember them at school) tend to be dull, but they make a good, thi.

Nourishing Broth is the most comprehensive book on broth ever published with an entire 100-page section on the known scientific benefits. I’ve found that between 50-100 recipes is the sweet spot where I can experiment with a handful of recipes without feeling overwhelmed. There are chapters on Asian soups (of course), creamy vegetable soups, seafood-based soups, and meat-based soups. I added my latest to the list ( New England Soups from the Sea) and also discovered an old gem of a soup cookbook ( The Soup Book).This recipe first appeared in The Food Aid Cookery Book, published in 1986, and was contributed by Mary El-Rayes. This is a traditional French farmhouse soup or potee that is really a sort of cross between a soup and a stew and makes a meal in itself. Take shelter from the rain, fire up that stove and settle on one of many nourishing and reviving recipes in this brilliant book. Anyone can make a good soup”, says Sophie Grigson, editor of this fail-safe, comprehensive guide to soup, and she’s not wrong. This has to be one of my own top of the pops favourites and has proven to be one of my most popular recipes with everyone over the years.