[Sca-cooks] Turnips or Rutabagas? lost soups

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Maggie MacDonald wrote:

> At 02:19 PM 2/8/2007,silverr0se at aol.com said something like:
>
>> Hmmm, so they still Scotch Broth alrighty - I wonder if I can/need to
>> special order it. I notice they make a soup called Pepper Pot -  
>> has anyone
>> ever had this and if so, what isit?
>>
>> Renata
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>
> We ate this when I was a child, but then we tried about everything  
> they
> sold.  Pepper pot was tasty, but I don't remember too much else  
> about it.
>
> To hear True Thomas explain it, Pepper pot is the tasty "normal"  
> version of
> menudo (it lacks the protein chunks of the distasteful origin).

Based on the menudo I've seen, its protein chunks are considerably  
less dubious than Campbell's, and it has considerably more, and a  
greater variety of, vegetables. But maybe my menudo experiences were  
atypical...

Adamantius




"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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