As promised, below are the yummy soup recipes from our Festival.
RECIPES for 50
Bubble and Squeak (Welsh)
12# chicken meat
9# potatoes (cooked & diced)
10 quarts chicken stock
8 cabbages (chopped=24 cups)
12 cloves garlic (diced)
2# onions (diced)
10# cooked diced ham
3# bacon (cooked & chopped)
4# cooked turnips (chopped)
2-3 cups water ( if needed)
Salt & pepper
—-adapted from cookbook; Celtic Folklore Cooking by Joanne Asala (1998)
Cock-a-leekie Soup (Scottish)
12# chicken meat
10 quarts chicken stock
36 leeks (chopped)
5 cups rice
5# pitted prunes
5 cups chopped parsley
3-5 cups water if needed
—adapted from cookbook; Celtic Folklore Cooking by Joanne Asala (1998)
Potato Soup (Irish)
1# butter
5 cups diced onions
5 cups diced scallions
15 cups peeled, diced potatoes
5 tsp salt
2 leaves of bay leaf
5 sprigs of each: fresh thyme, rosemary, parsley
4 1/2 quarts vegetable stock
5 cups whole milk
—-adapted from cookbook; The Ballymaloe Cookbook by Myrtle Allen (1989)
