[Sca-cooks] Making Tomatoe Soup from Scratch

[Micheal]

 Strangely enough I had a tomatoe soup flavored that way in a Liverpool pub. 
Who knows he may have been be on to something. Angel or not he must have 
known something about cooking.
 Cealian
> The best tomato soup I have ever had was at a tiny luncheonette near a 
> Greyhound Bus station in Binghamton, NY, where the cook/owner, who looked 
> like a late 60's motorcycle gang member, cooked enough bacon for rendered 
> bacon fat to make the roux, then reserved the chopped bacon to return to 
> the pot later as a garnish. He had also stirred in grated, fresh 
> horseradish. He alleged that this was an English technique. Who was I to 
> argue with a Hell's Angel who made good soup and had a lot of knives?
>
> HTH,
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> "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
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