Simply put:
Stew = big chunks of stuff cooked slowly over a long period "stewed"
Soup = Quickly prepared,mainly pureed stuff,short cooking time
Dexter's Apprentice.
Simply put:
Stew = big chunks of stuff cooked slowly over a long period "stewed"
Soup = Quickly prepared,mainly pureed stuff,short cooking time
All spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in my post's are intentional.
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The soup in my primary school was more like stew, it was mostly potatoes and lentils and about one sixth of it was liquid.Stupid fucking primary school bitchass cock suckers.
But I like the "stewed" vs. "quickly prepared" explanation.
That's the way the potato mashes.
That's the way the pan flashes.
That's the way the market crashes.
That's the way the whip lashes.
That's the way the teeth gnashes.
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Fat Secret Agent
Scottish soup, the ladle should stand upright in the pot.Originally Posted by SpatulaGeekGirl
The soup in my primary school was more like stew, it was mostly potatoes and lentils and about one sixth of it was liquid.
But I like the "stewed" vs. "quickly prepared" explanation.
The clew is in the verb form of the word. Stew means to cook slowly, therefore you have stewed meat or whatever. There is also a noun, the stew which is the result of the stewing.
You could argue that what you had was a vegetable stew. However that is unlikely, as the tatties were probably added later in the cooking process to stop them breaking up.
Your observation is a good one, but I think it's more a case by case basis, rather than a definitive answer. Pea and ham for example is soup, because it is mostly broth, with some solid meat in it. but it can be cooked for a long time.
All told, I believe The's explanation is probably the best. I think we should forward it to Ency Brit, for consideration.
Four Star Cynic
So what's stroganoff?
Packed lunch FTW, by the way.
It's hot in Topeka.
Fat Secret Agent
Do you have a nice lunchbox, Doris.
Four Star Cynic
Yes, it fits perfectly between my books and pencilshit, and you can see through it and see what my mum put in my sandwich.
It's hot in Topeka.
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If it's runny then it's soup.
Tip: Norfolk Stew, don't peal ya veg, leave it hole, Add little meat!
Bring to the boil, simmer till veg is almost squidgy, and enjoy,
nice & lumpy me beauty
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en(un)lightened
The premise is flawed.
Soup can become stew-like (by cooking longer, or stewing) which cooks off a bit of liquid content and by the addition of flour and/or corn starch.
Stew cannot become soup in any case.
If you set out to make stew and end up with soup, you've fucked things up (though not irretrievably), but for soup to be soup, it cannot ever have been stew.
Understand?
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Nice one the "you've fucked things up" excellent!
It's a simple dish to do
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