Soup! Eating afloat

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OK - not the purest, most genuinely oak-smoked red-lead post ever... But what are your favourite soups afloat? I like pea&ham a lot and also mulligatawny, as it's spicy and warming and reminds me of dinghy-sailing when I was a kid. My granny would pack me off every day with a tin of Mulligatawny soup. All soups are good, but I reckon those two are the best of the ordinary sorts. Strangely, ashore I prefer different soup... I bet someone out there has a penchant for broccolli and stilton.
 
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Best I've had I think was at a little spot in Tobermory ..... But there again there's a pub in town serves a pretty mean dish too. Now I think I'd wash it down with a nice Chenin Blanc - (which of course I always keep a handy bottle of aboard ..)

This really is no good, must get back to work. I blame that grumpydog bloke.
 
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Almost anything as long as it's a bit spicy.

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Many moons ago on a dark and stormy night with the wind howling in the shrouds we battled our way south across Biscay. A member of the watch volunteered to go below and make soup for us. Tasting the soup he decided it needed a little "umph" to warm us up. He searched the stores and found an ordinary 2 ounce packet of of table pepper so decided to add a couple of pinches and flipped the plastic top off. Just at that very moment the yacht crashed into a hole and the packet plus pepper fell into the soup. Worried about what to do next he decided to destroy the evidence by mixing the all pepper and cardboard packet into the soup and promptly served it up. Delious was the verdict of the whole watch - until the following morning when we were doing the washing up and came across the plastic lid of the packet /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Pete
 
Cullen skink without a doubt, with lentil, carrot, onion and corriander coming a close second.
The correct bread is also important. It must be firm yet absorbent. don't want it falling apart in the mug.
 
Beware of the Soup

In the days when it took the quick boats a week to get to Hobart ...

One of the old time Sydney to Hobart skippers used to start a huge pot of soup boiling as the yacht slipped out of Sydney Heads. Through the race this hearty broth would be reheated, served and have something added - a bottomless broth that would keep the crew warm and fed the whole distance.

Simplified things wonderfully - only need a pot a ladle, a cup and a spoon for each crewman

Until.

they had a particularly nasty squall and they had to drop the spinnaker fast - these were the days when halyards were led to side of the mast and were external.

Someone dropped the bulk of the halyard into the cabin where it created a twisty bight around one of the handles of the soup pot.

Threw the brace, threw the halyard - and up comes the soup bowl out of the companionway and races toward the base of the mast. Slams into the block on the mast - shatters it and rips the base out of the wood and the whole thing headed skywards.

Soup rained.

Hot soup rained. The pot hit the masthead and jammed.

Wreckage - soup, bacon bones, beans. Four days to Hobart.

AND they had to sail the soup stained boat into Constitution Dock and tie up alongside the other boats.

The following year they took some emergency provisions as well.

So the best soup ... one that maintains the appropriate altitude.

Best wishes to all

Michael Storer
 
BOILING SOUP /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Ahem , surely everyone knows that you should allow it to 'simmer' but never boil /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
No question soup is great to keep you going when the weathers foul.Two years ago whilst crossing the North sea bound for the Baltic we found ourselves in a gale and whilst holding on to the helm for all I was worth another crew member spoon fed me Shepherds pie. Not soup but bloody good. Took me back to my highchair days !!
 
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Tesco used to sell a fresh smoked haddock chowder, much like cullen skink, I think they stopped doing it.

Lots of black pepper on top!

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Tesco still do I think, but if you ever get the chance to taste my own homemade version you would never eat the tinned variety again.
 
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The best bit about soup (obviously) is the ease of preparation, but although it involves almost doubling the workload!! lobbing a tin of new taters in, turns it into something you can pretend is a meal.


Dont try and drink them though....could be nasty!
 
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