[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks) onion soup...

[Patrick Levesque]

Wow! I leave just for a day to attend EK Coronation and this amazing thread
on soup pops up!

Here's my two cents:

I recently happily perverted a recipe from Platina (one of those 'what can I
cook this evening' things that goes out of hand...); the end result isn't
period, I'm afraid, but it does taste good.

Platina's recipe is originally a ourd soup (Book VII #59) and ask to boil
first the gourds in broth with 'a bit' of onions, and then to reboil them in
broth with verjuice and saffron.

Since I used new world squash instead (perversion #1) I dispensed with the
double boiling things. One could argue at this point I should have dropped
the onions altogether; Instead, I threw in almost as much onion as gourd in
the soup (perversion #2).

Boil it a while, stir in egg yolk and parmesan, serve, spice up. It is
somewhat thicker than your conventional onion soup, so maybe it could be
served in a bread bowl. It is very tasty and also, and -very- filling.

The end result is not period, and it's not Russian, so I don't know if it's
of any help, but since it's gourd season you can enjoy it for yourself.

Petru