ITALIAN VEGETABLE SOUP »

INGREDIENTS
* 1/2 tsp salt
* Cooking oil spray
* 450g/1lb lean minced beef
* 100g/4oz cup diced onion
* 100g/4oz sliced celery
* 50g/2oz sliced carrots
* 1 410g can red kidney beans, drained
* 1 410g can black eyed beans, drained
* 500ml/16fl oz beef stock
* Handful of finely chopped fresh parsley
* 2 400g cans chopped tomatoes
* 1/4tsp each dried oregano and [...]

Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup »

Ingredients:
1 medium leek
1 carrot
a little olive oil
1 potato
6 cups chicken stock or vegetable broth or water
a pinch of salt
2 fillets of chicken
2 corn cobs, or about 1 1/2 canned or frozen corn
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp chopped parsley
1 egg white, lightly beaten
freshly ground black pepper
Method:
Cut leek in four lengthwise, leaving root intact, [...]

Sweet Potato And Chilli Soup »

Sweet potatoes this make a colourful, fibrous and extremely satisfying soup – with a kick
INGREDIENTS:

butter

1 onion , roughly chopped

1 red chilli , finely chopped or a pinch of chilli flakes

1 tsp ground coriander

2 garlic cloves , crushed

750g sweet potatoes , peeled and cut into chunks

vegetable stock fresh, cube [...]

Apple Soup »

Ingredients:
1 large cooking apple
1 small finely chopped onion
seasoning and sugar to taste
a little butter
1 teaspoonful of cornflour
1/2 pint of water

Method:
Peel and cut up the apple, and cook with the onion in the water till quite tender. Rub the mixture through a sieve, return to the saucepan, add the butter, seasoning and sugar, thicken the soup [...]

Apple Soup »

Ingredients:
1 lb. apples
1 qt. water
sugar and flavouring
1 tablespoon sago
Method:
Wash the apples and cut into quarters, but do not peel or core. Put into a saucepan with the water and sugar and flavoring to taste. When sweet, ripe apples can be obtained, people with natural tastes will prefer no addition of any kind. Otherwise, a little [...]

Asparagus Soup »

Wash two bunches of fresh asparagus carefully, and cut into small pieces. Put to cook in a quart of boiling water, and simmer gently till perfectly tender, when there should remain about a pint of the liquor. Turn into a colander, and rub all through except the hard portion. To a pint of asparagus mixture [...]