A Book of Mediterranean Food

are, unless otherwise stated, for four or five people. ...

Soups Le plus entendu de touts n’eust pas quitté son écuelle de soupe pour recouvrir la liberté de la respublique de Platon. La ...

and pepper and let them boil fairly quickly. When the vegetables are almost cooked, throw in ¼ lb of vermicelli and finish cooki ...

SOUPE BASQUE Brown ¼ lb of chopped onions in lard; add ½ lb of pumpkin cut in pieces; add the cut-up leaves of a white cabbage, ...

lemon. Add a little boiling broth to the eggs in the basin, spoon by spoon, stirring all the time. Add this to the rest of the b ...

frequently to prevent them catching. When they start to brown, add the diced ham or bacon, the tomatoes cut in quarters and the ...

The same soup can be made without the egg yolks by adding some vermicelli as soon as the soup has come to the boil; or make it w ...

pepper, and the lemon juice. Simmer slowly for about 20 minutes. Now add the spinach, the peas, and the lettuce, stir a minute o ...

With the remains of a Cassoulet (p. 102) a most delicious soup can be made. Heat up the beans which are left over in a little ex ...

when they are dry add them to any kind of hot soup – chicken broth, for instance, or a simple vegetable soup. POTAGE DE TOPINAMB ...

bacon. Let this mixture cook only a minute or two, then pour it, with the oil, into the soup. Heat, and serve quickly. HOT CUCUM ...

cucumber cut into small pieces, and all the other ingredients chopped fine, and reheat cautiously, so that the vinegar in the pi ...

small clams called vongole, sometimes small red mullet, prawns, mussels, small lobsters or langouste. The basis of Italian fish ...

olive oil in a wide, heavy pan. When it has warmed put in a small chopped onion; let it melt a little, add a tablespoon each of ...

and 1 pint of large prawns (these should be in their shells and uncooked, although personally I do not care for the very strong ...

opened sprinkle a little chopped parsley and if you like a little lemon juice or chopped lemon peel over the top, and serve at o ...

don’t like fishing bones out of the soup can use filleted fish. A MEDITERRANEAN FISH SOUP A cod’s head, a cooked crawfish, 2 pin ...

orange peel, marjoram, thyme, white wine and water, and a tea spoonful of saffron. Simmer this stock for an hour. In the meantim ...

it to the boil, put in the rice and simmer it for 15 minutes; now add, through a sieve, the tomatoes; the crawfish cut into smal ...

and the garlic at the last moment gives the soup its fresh flavour. WHITE FISH SOUP 2 lb any firm white fish, 1 cod’s head, 1 on ...