Soup Cookery

Soup Cookery

1. Widely-Known Soups

   • Sinigang Soup
     • Famous in the Philippines
     • Made from tamarind with kangkong tops or string beans using pork stock
   • French Onion Soup
     • Most popular and simplest of all French soups
   • Olla Podrida
     • Famous soup of Spain
     • Puree of black beans, hot sausages, chicken, and ham
   • Wanton Soup
     • Chicken, shrimp, and spinach soup from China
     • Minced meat is placed inside wrapper called a wanton
   • Bouillabase
     • Soup famous from France and New Roleans
     • Heavy soup and is considered a meal

2. Thickened Soups

   • Also called potage
   • Vegetable Soups
   • Cream Soups
     • Most craved kind of soup
     • "Bisque"
   • Purees
     • French word for mashed

3. Clear Soups

   • Bouillon
     • Base from which all clear soups are made
     • French word of "broth"
   • Consomme
     • Clear and sparkling broth from bouillon
     • Clarifying - removing all the sediments so that the soup is clear and sparkling.
       • Decanting - Means to pour off the liquid slowly and gradually without stirring the sediment
   • Broth
     • English name for bouillon
     • Thin soup but is served with different kinds of garnishing