Soups: Recipe: For Sarah - Slovak Pea and Potato Soup
Subject: Recipe: For Sarah - Slovak Pea and Potato Soup
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Melba's Jammin' (barbschaller at earthlink.net)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:11:40 -0600
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Slovak Pea and Potato Soup
Recipe By: Barb Schaller post to r.f.cooking 11-20-2007
Serving Size: 4
2 quarts water
2 cups diced potatoes
1/3 cup chopped FRESH parsley
1 teaspoon salt
10 ounce pkg frozen peas (or 2 cups fresh)
3 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup minced onion
2 tablespoons flour
Bring water to boil; add potatoes, parsley and salt and cook for 10 minutes. Stir in peas. Brown onion in butter, stir in flour and brown lightly (this mixture is called "zaprashka"); stir into soup to thicken slightly. Cook until peas are done. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Notes: Cheap to make and very tasty! A lenten favorite.
From: Sarah (sarahrylance13 at yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:03:54 GMT
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Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Slovak Pea and Potato Soup
Thanks Barb, recipe snipped and saved!
From: Melba's Jammin' (barbschaller at earthlink.net)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:50:11 -0600
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Sarah wrote:
> Thanks Barb, recipe snipped and saved!
You might want to add a little chicken base to it. It might be an acquired taste but I grew up eating it and do make it -- usually with a little chicken base in it. I don't think today's potatoes taste as good as the ones we grew when I was growing up. We used manure for fertilizer not chemical applications.
From: Wayne Boatwright (wayneboatwright at cox.net)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:03:09 GMT
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Oh pshaw, Melba's Jammin' meant to say...
> You might want to add a little chicken base to it. It might be an
> acquired taste but I grew up eating it and do make it -- usually with a
> little chicken base in it. I don't think today's potatoes taste as good
> as the ones we grew when I was growing up. We used manure for
> fertilizer not chemical applications.
Barb, don't you also have a recipe for Slovak green bean soup? I think it was mentioned once here in rfc, but I can't find the recipe.
TIA
From: Melba's Jammin' (barbschaller at earthlink.net)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:14:00 -0600
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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> Barb, don't you also have a recipe for Slovak green bean soup? I think it
> was mentioned once here in rfc, but I can't find the recipe.
I have a recipe for a green bean soup that Sister Marge thinks is "on the order of Mom's." Not even close. Mom's green bean soup was a sour soup with vinegar and non-dairy creamer (so it wouldn't curdle); Marge's recipe calls for something like a *teaspoon* of vinegar. Lemme get it.Also, Mom's likely did NOT involve chicken broth.
Green Bean Soup
Recipe By: Posted again to rec.food.cooking by Barb Schaller 11-21-2007
Serving Size: 6
1 # fresh green beans in 3/4" pieces
4 cups chicken stock
2 tsp. salt (I don't use it)
1 clove garlic on a toothpick
1 tsp. vinegar
2 Tbsp. butter
1 small onion chopped fine
1 tsp. paprika
2 Tbsp. chopped parsley
2 Tbsp. flour
1/4 cup sour cream at room temperature
Cook beans, salt, vinegar and garlic in chicken stock about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Make roux from everything else except sour cream. Dilute with 1 cup bean broth, then stir back into beans and broth. Simmer 10 minutes until tender. Remove the garlic. Mix 2 tablespoons soup into the sour cream then pour back into soup. Do not boil. Correct the seasoning.
Notes: Source: Marge, 9/17/94. Pretty tasty! Not as sour as Mom's Green Bean Soup --cream did not curdle.
From: Wayne Boatwright (wayneboatwright at cox.net)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:26:47 GMT
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Oh pshaw, Melba's Jammin' meant to say...
> I have a recipe for a green bean soup that Sister Marge thinks is "on
> the order of Mom's." Not even close. Mom's green bean soup was a sour
Thanks so much, Barb! This certainly looks as though it could be the same or very similar to the soup my friends mother used to make, though I don't recall it having chicken stock. (I could be wrong) Given that it's sour cream, I would imagine that the vinegar could be increased without the sour cream curdling. I'm certainly going to try this sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
From: Melba's Jammin' (barbschaller at earthlink.net)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:02:51 -0600
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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> Thanks so much, Barb! This certainly looks as though it could be the same
> or very similar to the soup my friends mother used to make, though I don't
> recall it having chicken stock. (I could be wrong) Given that it's sour
> cream, I would imagine that the vinegar could be increased without the sour
> cream curdling. I'm certainly going to try this sometime between
> Thanksgiving and Christmas.
When I make this, I increase the vinegar considerably and skip the sour cream. What I think wasn't so clear in my post above was that Mom's soup was thicker than than this -- this is naught but broth; hers had a bit more body to it.
From: Wayne Boatwright (wayneboatwright at cox.net)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:25:54 GMT
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Oh pshaw, Melba's Jammin' meant to say...
> When I make this, I increase the vinegar considerably and skip the sour
> cream. What I think wasn't so clear in my post above was that Mom's
> soup was thicker than than this -- this is naught but broth; hers had a
> bit more body to it.
Gotcha. Thanks. My friend's mother's soup was no so thick either.