[Sca-cooks] Semi-OT: Irish Leek & Oatmeal Soup? and other soup notes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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)




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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

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