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>Subject: Looking for soup recipe
>From: "Julie Bove"
>Date: 9/18/2004 11:47 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <yj73d.2975$vd1.2895@trnddc03>
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>"Alan_B" > wrote in message
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>> from a german foodie
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>> Okay, here is the transcript of IRC ;-)
>> Quark: maybe use a mix of yoghurt and mascarpone
>> <Alan_B> or sour cream and cottage cheese
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>> >> basically you mix Quark, egg, a bit of salt and chopped chives to
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>> make the filling
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>Quark? I don't know what that is. And this stuff most definitely didn't
>contain any sour cream, soft cheese, chives or filling. It did have what
>appeared to be cheddar cheese mixed into the soup.
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>> >> cottage cheese is rather lumpy
>> >> then you make a rather firm spaetzle dough
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>> <Alan_B> Filling? for a soup?
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>I've had Tortellini soup. That's pasta with a filling. I once made some
>kind of Chinese soup with filled dumplings that looked like little boats.
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>> >> roll it out, cut it into squares, put some of the filling onto one
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>> triangle of
>> the square and put the other triangle on top and then press both parts
>> together to
>> enclose the filling
>> <Alan_B> ok
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>> >> meanwhile you heat some stock with some potatoes cut into small
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>> pieces for about
>> 10 mins
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>> >> then add the triangles and boil them until they rise to the top of
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>> the water
>> <Alan_B> could you please send this in a e-mail?
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>> >> I try to ;-)
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>Thanks, but I don't think this was the soup that we had. This one had
>blobby looking dumplings and they had no filling at all.
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Julie:

Did you see the link I gave for the cheese buttons? I'm sure if you combined
the recipe someone had given you for the soup with the actual cheese buttons,
you'd come out with a pretty reasonable facsimile of what you had at the diner.

--
DJ