[Sca-cooks] Semi-OT: Irish Leek & Oatmeal Soup? and other soup notes
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Dec 19 22:13:53 PST 2005
On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Mike C. Baker / Kihe Blackeagle wrote:
> Adamantius scripsit:
>
>> Irish leek and oatmeal soup with milk, cream, and some of the
>> chicken stock
>
> OK, I think I can fake this one -- but does the good Master have
> any particular wisdom in the preparation thereof he might care to
> impart? Leek-to-oatmeal ratio? I'll guess one cup oatmeal to one
> average-size thinly sliced leek (trim roots, trim all but the
> palest green portion of leaves), based on past experience with a
> leek & beef soup I offered as an exhibitor at Steppes Artisan eight
> or ten years back.
Try here...
http://www.clannada.org/recipes_bf.php
This recipe appears to have been stolen from Malachi McCormick. Once
upon a time, in an early edition of one his Irish cookbooks, the
recipe would have called for chicken stock instead of vegetable
stock, and steel-cut oats. You may need more leeks than you
originally mentioned; they provide such a lovely richness.
Adamantius (amused to find that if you Google Brotchan Foltchep, a
fairly significant portion of the hits appear to be quotes from me)
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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