Flour soup /col recipes

[CourtneeLuv]

Just seen this on Facebook, and thought it might help someone out

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She makes soup by toasting flour, adds a knob of butter, stirs in milk and then adds salt & pepper. Brings it to the boil and adds more milk, or water to thin it, then serves.

She says its nice.

That's basically a white sauce, is it not?

Surely it’s a base for other things? Broccoli and Blue cheese, roasted parsnip, leek and potatoes…..

She ate it as it was 🤷‍♀️

I don't know, I try not to cook with flour.

Sounds like a recipe for seasoned wallpaper paste.

You might as well just drink a glass of milk. There's not much more nutrition in adding some flour and a knob of butter

Agree with pps that's not soup it's a basic white sauce.

Ah yes, I made this today, added cheese and pasta to mine.

To be fair, butter is worth more than gold bullion these days so not sure how cheap this white sauce can be sadly but with some cheese in (even MORE ££), pasta and cauliflower, it’ll be tasty!

Very basic white sauce. I had mine yesterday with mushrooms and chopped smoked bacon and some nice crusty bread.

That's white sauce.

Is this an anti poverty thing or a new tik tok chalkenge?

She says its nice
Well she would, wouldn't she? It sounds shit.

That sounds like something I would use to stick wallpaper to the wall.

It is not nice, it is not nutritious.. it is just crap. Here is a recipe for us poor folk... basically gruel without the lumps.

A proper CoL recipe would be something filling and cheap, but also nutritious. You can have a full belly but have malnutrition.

Yes, it's modern gruel.

When I was very poor, I did use cheese sauce with veg to fill plates and stomachs. And custard made with custard powder rather than eggs for the same purpose. But, obviously, with something more nutritious with it.

I do remember one of my kids saying, is it porridge or baked potatoes tonight, because it was the end of the month, and they'd noticed the signs. Nothing wrong with carbs to pad a meal, but it's grim to think that people think it's a meal.

It's not gourmet, but if it tides someone over til they get food bank supplies or their kids don't go to bed hungry, then it's done its job.

That is actually a thing in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - amongst other countries, although the flour used might be rye or buckwheat and either water or stock instead of milk.

Well it would add carbohydrates, additional vitamins, fibre and fats... Not exactly nothing?

Not much fibre in white flour but I guess it will fill you up a little longer.

I'm not sure the additional calories will balance out the cost of turning on the gas for long enough to cook the flour out.

Yes, white sauce, not soup! The best thing about soup is how nutritious it is because of the veg you add. That's not nutritious at all.

It's just a YouTuber who makes videos about weird and wonderful foods and recipes from history and different cultures - its not being touted as a nutritious solution to being hungry.
I love watching Emmymade's videos.