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To ask where all the bright yellow very salty vegetable soup has gone?

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pandarific · 01/08/2020 14:04

You know the one I mean, it's a lovely buttery yellow, had miniscule orange bits of carrot floating in it but was otherwise smooth, was VERY salty, and always tasted of indeterminate but delicious vegetable-y-ness.

You'd get it in the kind of big traditional cafe where they served shepherds pie in big dishes behind glass, and tea in stainless steel teapots which leaked all over the flat brown tray as you went to find your table. Is best eaten with a fluffy white roll and gold foil wrapped butter.

Where has it all gone? Is it not a thing any more? How would I make it? Can you buy it in vats from catering places or something?

Send help - pregnant and fantasising about the smell of it.

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flibbertigibbety · 01/08/2020 17:32

Oh my word. I'm pregnant too and reading this has made me CRAVE that soup. I didn't even know that was what I wanted, but apparently it is!!! Think Tesco will have it?

MsRinky · 01/08/2020 17:36

Sadly, as it now meets salt targets and doesn’t have MSG in anymore, it probably won’t taste as good as you remember it...

Inextremis · 01/08/2020 17:37

When I worked in a café our vegetable soup was homemade - just a load of onions and other veg (carrots, spuds, broccoli, anything that needed using up) boiled until mushy with a few Knorr veggie stock cubes, then blitzed until smooth, heavily seasoned with white pepper. It was wonderful, and also very profitable!

BlankTimes · 01/08/2020 17:40

BarkandCheese has it with the Marigold Bouillon Powder.

marigoldhealthfoods.co.uk/products/bouillons-and-gravies/bouillon-original-green.php

It's widely available, I bought some in Sainsbury's this afternoon.

I've been addicted to that 'Golden vegetable soup' taste for years, you can use the bouillon powder in lots of ways, I particularly like using it as a condiment, sprinkled sparingly on a crunchy green salad, or more generously on boiled eggs.

Shodan · 01/08/2020 17:41

Not the vegetable one, but I still stockpile the packet chicken noodle soup when I see it Blush

So salty. So not-really-chickeny. And teeny noodles that sink to the bottom of the bowl, necessitating noisy slurpage at the end.

Love it Grin

Nanny0gg · 01/08/2020 17:45

If you want really nice vegetable soup (add your own salt) Cully & Sully is delicious

inickedyourbiro · 01/08/2020 17:48

mmmm

i cycle past a factory that makes soup and it it always smells just like that! yum

Treaclepie19 · 01/08/2020 17:55

I'm pregnant too and now really fancy soup 😂

Bluebellbike · 01/08/2020 18:03

Looks like there's plenty of it in Ireland

iMatter · 01/08/2020 19:47

Lentil soup from a tin is smooth. And salty and delicious with teeny bits of carrot.

It was my staple food at uni (as well as findus crispy pancakes)

Lookyloo · 01/08/2020 22:13

Farmhouse vegetable you can't get in England, only in Ireland. Last time I went over we brought back about 10 packs and my aunt sent me about 10 packs last Christmas. It's not as tasty as it used to be when I was a child as no msg etc. Still a good hangover cure and I lived on it when I was sick for 9 months (not pregnant).

AdaColeman · 01/08/2020 22:44

As always, Ireland has all the best stuff!

ViciousJackdaw · 02/08/2020 01:05

@AdaColeman

As always, Ireland has all the best stuff!
It does! Uncle Manus used to bring me packets of Erin Thick Country Vegetable soup mix, Galtee cheese in a box and YR sauce when he came over to visit, along with a tinned porter cake.
Lookyloo · 02/08/2020 19:07

Oh Galtee cheese in a box!! I miss that. My grandparents always had it, while we only had cheese singles, so it was a treat going to grandparents as you'd get homemade brown bread and the Galtee cheese.

Lookyloo · 02/08/2020 19:10

Actually, I think it was called Calvita that they used to get!

Lookyloo · 02/08/2020 19:17

A soup that's very easy to do is the following:

1 leek, slicked
1 onion sliced
1 large or 2 medium potatoes sliced
3 carrots sliced

Put 30grams butter in a saucepan and put the veg in and cover. Let them steam/fry/soften for 5 minutes.

Add one litre of vegetable stock and simmer for 20-25 minutes until veg is softened.

At the end of cooking, take saucepan off hob and add 30ml of single cream, stir in.

Blitz and enjoy. With crusty bread and butter obvs.

I've made this a couple of times and it's gorgeous. Also suitable for freezing.

pandarific · 03/08/2020 10:00

The power of Mumsnet! It's not 100% how I remember it and those who said it wouldn't be salty enough we're correct, but it's pretty damn close.

Mmmmm soup. On another note, has anyone a soup maker and if so which one have you got?

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