Rationing starts tomorrow! I got a head start by making some Peasant Soup from the WW2 cook book “Vegetables for Victory” by Ambrose Heath AND I made another Parsnip Pie as that is what I’ll be eating for my main meal tomorrow!
The Peasant Soup is very simple and economical as you’d expect! I halved the ingredients below and this made 3 portions of thick, tasty soup. I’ve enjoyed a portion today and I will use the rest up this week.
Peasant Soup Ingredients
- 2 carrots
- 2 onions
- 2 leeks
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 potatoes
- 1 small turnip
- Parsley
- 1 clove
- Margarine
- Salt and pepper
- Water
Method
Slice up two carrots, two onions, two leeks, two tomatoes. two potatoes and a small turnip. Stew them in a little margarine. ad then add a few sprigs of parsley, a clove, salt, pepper and enough hot water which, after boiling for about an hour, will be reduced to the amount of soup you will need.
When the vegetables are cooked, rub the soup through a sieve, and serve it as it is, or bind it, if you would rather, with the equivalent of half an egg in dried egg powder moistened with a little of the soup or with stock.
Makes 6 generous portions (cost around 20p per serving)
C xxxx
I love how a simple mixed veg soup is titled Peasant Soup. And they say ‘sexing things up’ is a modern phenomenon? I’d say Grandma could still teach us a thing or two… LOL!
I make very similar to this sometimes (without the clove, but including a couple of bay leaves), and use a hand blender at the very end, blitzing it coarse rather than smooth.
That sounds good! Our Grandmas always could teach us a thing or two, there was always a way to cut a corner, try another way and make things taste a whole lot better too haha! C xxx
A great way to start off the week!
I used the leftovers yesterday and the rest tomorrow xxx Thanks
Is the clove, a clove of garlic? Or the actual spice clove?
The spice.