Soup Maigre

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  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe

By Annie Gray and Andrew Hann

Published 2020

  • About

Soup maigre, or ‘lean’ soup, was intended for fast days, which were the meat-free days promulgated by the Catholic Church during the medieval period. By the 18th century it had come to mean a turnip soup, and was often called ‘soup-meagre’ by the British, who regarded it as evidence of the poor French diet. The stereotype at the time held that the French lived on turnips and the British on beef. Avis simply calls it ‘turnip purée soup’.

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