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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Tressa wrote:

> And would another grain such as barley work as well?
>
> Tressa the Novice Cook

Sure. Purists might claim this diminishes the "Irishness" of the  
soup, but in theory, no problem. I've never tried it. You'd also have  
to cook it, longer, like maybe 45 minutes or more.

By the way, some versions of the recipe I wrote out, and which is in  
the Florilegium and some other Web sites (lookit me, Ma, I'm  
famous!), have me instructing you to cook the leeks separately and  
add them to the soup. The other day, I didn't do that -- I cooked the  
leeks in butter in the bottom of the soup pot until wilted, then  
added the milk and stock, brought it to a boil, added the oats, and  
simmered. I'm not sure why I was cooking the leeks separately, unless  
it had something to do with speed and making several gallons of the  
stuff at one time...

Maybe some avid reader of old posts to SCA-Cooks in its infancy can  
tell me why I suggested this... there must have been _some_ reason. ;-)

A.

>
> --- Kathleen A Roberts <karobert at unm.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:13:53 -0500
>>   "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
>> <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> so having most of an expensive can of steel cut oats
>> left
>> over from making haggis...
>>
>> how would you treat them in the soup, as opposed to
>> the
>> rolled oats?
>>
>> cailte
>>
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