W. Baker wrote:

> bigwheel > wrote:
>
> : Bj??rn Steensrud;1821942 Wrote:
> : > Billy wrote:
> : > -
> : >
> : > What have you got in a low fat, low carb, low salt soup? Cooking soup
> : > with bacon, or ham shanks is too easy, and deadly for some of us.-
> : >
> : > Well, I guess this one isn't low carb exactly, but it's low fat and
> : > can be
> : > salt free if you need it:
> : >
> : > A winter favorite he the cheapest beef cut you can get, slice off the
> : > fat, simmer (in water, no stock!) for ~2 hours with a quartered onion
> : > and a
> : > quartered carrot, a bay leaf or two and some whole black peppercorns.
> : >
> : > After an hour and a half, add vegetables: sliced carrots, a cubed
> : > slice of
> : > rutabaga, parsley root, celery root, a bit of cut-up cabbage. Roughly
> : > 100 g
> : > of each kind to 1 kg meat.
> : >
> : > Remove meat and keep warm while serving the soup. Then serve meat with
> : > whatever sauce you like, I do an onion sweet-and-sour sauce.
> : >
> : > Had it today - I've heard of "pulled pork", this was "pulled beef", I
> : > think.
>
> : Thanks for the recipe. Arrahhhaa..nope..that aint pulled beef. That
> : called soup..lol. Sounds mighty tasty too. How come no stock allowed?
> : That just dont seem fair. As Emeril say..Water takes away flavor..stock
> : adds flavor. Are we trying to dodge fat or salt here? Enquiring minds
> : need to know this kinda stuff.
> : --
> : bigwheel
>
> As isthe case in the chicken soup recipe I sent in as well as this one,
> long cooking with the meat(or chicken) actually is like making a stock and
> then using it. In old family recipes this was the standard proceedure.
> Generally making a stock as not frequently done as a separate proceedure
> and soup was always a long cooking enterprise, taking several hours on a
> low flame. Readily available stock was not something people had and soup
> ws made, often, from what was around the house and as far as vegetables
> were concerned, whtever ws about to gobad.
>
> Wendy

I read a story where one of the characters is stirring a soup, saying "My
grandmother started this soup" ,,,