Ultra-Rapid Soups

Can one prepare a soup in ten minutes? Certainly, if one is content to keep to a few rules. Boiling a saucepan of water is the slowest part of the business. The time this takes does not count according to our agreement, as we began our culinary manoeuvre by putting a saucepan of water on the gas.

Here are twenty-odd soups, all of which can be rapidly prepared.