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- From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
- Subject: Re: ... 30 cloves of garlic.../Recipe for watercress soup
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:13:04 GMT
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- morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J Findlay) writes:
- >Apologies to the original poster - I have lost her name.
- >
- >I tried this recipe last night - 3 bulbs/30 clives garlic roasted
- >at 350/Gas Mark 4 for an hour ( I left it a bit more)
- >
- >I My cloves were all like smelly lumps of coal, which I'm sure was not
- >the intent. I *did* separate all the cloves before baking them - was
- >this my mistake??
- Wrap in foil. Coincidentally enough, I did just a few cloves
- at 350 for about an hour. They didn't get ruined, but burned
- down quite sticky, even wrapped in foil the lost too much
- moisture.
-
- Next, I'm going to try 475 for 15 minutes.
-
- What I made came up pretty well, it was watercress soup. It's
- not very substantial, but not much work, either.
-
- Short version:
- Prepare a vegetable stock. Boil briefly w/4 cloves of roasted garlic.
- Remove from heat, and, as boiling subsides, add a lot of watercress
- leaves.
-
- Long version, for two large servings.
-
- Bake 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 medium carrot, scraped
- 2 sm. stalks of celery
- 1/2 medium onion
- Mince and saute in a little oil briefly. Meanwhile...
- Wash and remove leaves from large bunch of watercress
- Chop a few of stems of the watercress*, to get loose fistfull
- Add
- 5 C. cold water
- 3 stems of italian (flat) parsely
- The chopped watercress stems*
- 1/2 tsp thyme (dried leaves) and 1/2 tsp sage (dried leaves)
- (use less if you have powder)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp salt (you'll add more later)
- Few grinds of pepper
-
- Heat should be medium low, so it comes to a slow boil. (You can
- make the rest of your dinner while this is happening.)
- Let boil gently c. 20 minutes, spoon off some and taste for salt
- and pepper.
- Remove garlic from oven, let cool, skin
- Strain through cheesecloth or fine sieve to get a clear stock
- Smash up the garlic in a bit of the stock, stir in to the stock
- Bring to a furious boil
- Kill the heat immediately
- When boiling is almost subsided, throw in watercress leaves and
- stir around.
-
- *The watercress stems may be a mistake. The stock was good but
- a little flat, next time I'm going to try without the stems.
-
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