Soup

Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by boiling ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of containers about 5,000 years ago, so soups presumably were little-known before that time.

Potage or pottage

"Potage" (connoting the contents of the cooking pot) denotes a soup where meat and vegetables are boiled together with water until it forms a thick soup. In Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the peasant diet consisted almost solely of potage.

Related Topics:
Medieval - Early Modern Europe - Peasant

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