Soup Starter

[msmofet]

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Soup Starter I used to make the beef barley soup every Halloween. I could make it ahead of time. That way, the girls would have something warm to eat after trick or treating. Haven't made my version in a long time. DD asked me to make it for dinner tonight.

 

[medtran49]

Soup Starter I used to make the beef barley soup every Halloween. I could make it ahead of time. That way, the girls would have something warm to eat after trick or treating. Haven't made my version in a long time. DD asked me to make it for dinner tonight.

I loved that stuff too, the beef vegetable. When DD was little, I'd make a pot of that, and add some of those frozen mixed vegetables as well, and we'd get several meals out of the pot. I'd prep everything and would ask the lady that babysat for me to put it on the stove about 4 o'clock. This was long before Craig came along.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I like the sound of this ‘soup starter’ thing. We don’t have it in the UK.
If I type in soup starter it will just give me a lot of recipes for normal soup because we serve it as a starter.
I’d like to make some soup starters.
Any chance of starting a thread with a recipe msmofet ?

Edit- we do have fresh vegetables chopped as soup mixes in some supermarkets.

 

[TastyReuben]

I like the sound of this ‘soup starter’ thing. We don’t have it in the UK.
If I type in soup starter it will just give me a lot of recipes for normal soup because we serve it as a starter.
I’d like to make some soup starters.
Any chance of starting a thread with a recipe msmofet ?

Edit- we do have fresh vegetables chopped as soup mixes in some supermarkets.

This is what it looked like:

I remember it as being pretty good!

 

[msmofet]

This is what it looked like:

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I remember it as being pretty good!

Yup that’s it.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I wonder if dried powder soup sachets count as what you’d call soup starters?

 

[Morning Glory]

This is what it looked like:

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I remember it as being pretty good!

So what were the ingredients? Is it dried?

 

[msmofet]

So what were the ingredients? Is it dried?

Yes dehydrated add beef and water.

 

[Morning Glory]

Yes dehydrated add beef and water.

So how would long would you cook this? I mean is it all dehydrated powder? You add chunks of beef to it and water and then cook for a long time?

Sorry, lots of questions.

 

[Puggles]

Is soup starter like Vegeta? Is that a European-only item? I've heard of Vegemite. You Aussies can keep that one for yourselves....from what I've heard about it. Regardless of how much I do like Colin Hay.

 

[msmofet]

So what were the ingredients? Is it dried?

So how would long would you cook this? I mean is it all dehydrated powder? You add chunks of beef to it and water and then cook for a long time?

Sorry, lots of questions.

From Google:
The commercial product "Soup Starter" (which came out in 1981, not the 1970s) typically consisted of
dehydrated vegetables, shell macaroni, and dry soup stock. The specific ingredients varied depending on the flavor (e.g., vegetable beef, chicken noodle).

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Typically took about one and one half hours.

 

[medtran49]

So how would long would you cook this? I mean is it all dehydrated powder? You add chunks of beef to it and water and then cook for a long time?

Sorry, lots of questions.

For the vegetable beef flavor, I used lean ground beef, browned, and then added the Soup Starter and water. Don't remember how long to cook, but long enough that I asked my babysitter to put it on the stove to cook before I got home from work. She called it a stew, rather than soup, as it had lots of dried vegetables and noodles, besides the frozen mixed vegetables I always added toward the end of cook time.

 

[Morning Glory]

From Google:
The commercial product "Soup Starter" (which came out in 1981, not the 1970s) typically consisted of
dehydrated vegetables, shell macaroni, and dry soup stock. The specific ingredients varied depending on the flavor (e.g., vegetable beef, chicken noodle).

Google Search
Typically took about one and one half hours.

Long time to cook then. I don't think we ever had an equivalent product here. Only dried packet soups (which we still have) which are quick cooking.

 

[msmofet]

Long time to cook then. I don't think we ever had an equivalent product here. Only dried packet soups (which we still have) which are quick cooking.

I used to cut up a bottom round roast into cubes. Then I browned them added the other dry stuff and water. It needed about 1 1/2 hours for the meat to be tender.

 

[Morning Glory]

She called it a stew, rather than soup, as it had lots of dried vegetables and noodles, besides the frozen mixed vegetables I always added toward the end of cook time.

It does sound like a stew. Especially if chunks of beef were added as per msmofet's version. Now I'm really craving a beef stew!