Hapus Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
To all our Welsh beekeepers ... Anyone got a recipe for Leek soup or anything else using Leeks that would freeze/keep - I've got an allotment full of them ~ about the only real success this year ? Says a lot about the climate in Wales I think ... Darwinian evolution !
Cawl - Fill a large saucepan - we used to use a prestige pressure cooker pan, but I now have a large stock pot with water and boil a piece of beef brisket - about a pound or two (on the bone preferably)with a handful of finely chopped onion until tender, set aside and (optional) leave the remaining liquid cool so you can skim the fat off the top.
Add diced carrots, swede and parsnip, when they're nearly cooked add a few large bits of potato, loads of leeks and the parsley, mix two tablespoons or so of plain flour with water into a thin paste and stir in (this won't really thicken it, but it does make a difference)
Serve in a 2 pint pudding basin (no poncy French soup bowls here please!
) season with salt and
white pepper accompanied with thich chunks of wholemeal bread and strong cheese - both can be put into the cawl so you get melty lumps of cheese on your (large) spoon
You can eat some of the meat in a sandwich or cut the whole piece up and add to the cawl to warm up at the end
You can use lamb (which is O.K.) or chicken - which is foul!
My mother always cuts her surplus leeks up and freezes them for when there is a dearth, she also freezes her parsley (unchopped) both are essential ingredients for cawl, bash the frozen parsley a few times and there is no need to chop it up.
Dydd gwyl Dewi Hapus
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