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Hint -- Its national "SOUP" month and national "SOUP SWAP" month

Definition of Soup

Soup is a liquid food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables or legumes (beans) in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth.

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Soup Facts

We all love soups don't we. In fact how could we not love soup since we've all been raised eating it. Every country in the world has soup recipes and family traditions from long ago.  In fact it's no surprise that soup is probably the oldest form of food right up there with bread.  Here are some fun soup facts that history tell us.

• Soup can be dated back to about 6000 B.C. and was first made of hippopotamus. 

• Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of pouches made of clay or animal skin) about 9,000 years ago.

• History also tells us that soup was first known as "sop,"  which was a piece of bread served with some type of liquid. (broth) People use to pour sop over a piece of bread or over broken off chunks of bread in a platter allowing it to soak up all the broth and then they would eat it.  As time went by sop was placed in deeper bowls and the liquid became the focal point instead of the bread as it once was. "Sop" soon became "Soup"  and the bread was then dipped in soup or thick stew.  In modern day the word sop is a definition of sopping up food.  Gruel is a fine example of sop which also goes back a long way in our History.

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Please swap your favorite soup recipe...

                                      here is one of MINE

 

OVEN BEEF STEW

 

2 lbs. stew meat

1 or 2 small onions

1 stalk celery

6 carrots

6 potatoes( I sometimescheat and use the whole canned potatoes)

2 tsp. salt

1 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoons tapioca (use more if you want juice to be thicker)

¼ cup V8 or tomato juice  I usually use quite a bit more as I like it juicy so I used a whole bottle of tomato juice.  

 

Layer ingredients in order given in about a 9x13 pan.  Do not brown meat.  Cover with foil.  Bake at 300 degrees for 5 to 6 hours, stirring once or twice.