Garbure

Name: Garbure (Cabbage and Salt Pork Soup)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 1 cabbage; 1 lb. of salt pork; ½ pint of haricot beans, previously soaked; 3 or 4 large potatoes; 2 large carrots; 1 or 2 leeks; 1 large turnip; 1 clove of garlic (optional); 2 onions; a sprig of thyme, salt and pepper; 1 clove of garlic (optional); a sprig of thyme, salt and pepper; a sprig of thyme, salt and pepper

Cabbage and Salt Pork Soup

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes of all Nations

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

About

This is more or less a rustic soup, but is very delicious. Every district in France has a slightly different version of it, and the one I give hails from Gascony.

Ingredients

1 cabbage
1 lb. of salt pork
½ pint of

Europe
France
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Blanch the cabbage, and quarter it. Put it in a saucepan with the haricot beans, previously soaked, the potatoes, peeled and halved, the sliced carrots, turnip, leeks, onions, garlic, and cover with cold water. Season highly with salt and pepper. Simmer gently for 1½ hours. Then add the pork, and simmer for another hour, or till the pork is quite tender. Put in each soup plate