Vegetarian vegetable soup?

[mmcnealy]

HELP!

Anybody got a good vegetarian vegetable soup recipe that they'd be willing to share? Needs to feed 15-20 people. Doesn't have to be SCA period, but that would be a definite plus.

I've been looking and looking and have come up empty handed. Worse comes to worse, I'll just make something up and play with it until it tastes good.

Comments

[ursula]

Cooking chickpeas or lentils in water also makes a good broth. This set of recipes from the Florilegium includes a medieval chickpea recipe:

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/soup-msg.html

Cariadoc's miscellany has a bunch of medieval middle Eastern lentil recipes along the lines of "cook lentils, add oil, vinegar, spices, and whatever vegetables you have lying around"; I've seen a similar Roman one. I have a modern North African vegetable stew recipe which I like and which uses 1/2 cup of chickpeas and a very medieval mix of spices (cinnamon, turmeric, saffron, and a pinch of non-medieval cayenne) along with lots of vegetables, if you're interested.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer to Cariadoc's miscellany, I'd forgotton about those and found a great recipe for a turnip soup. :)

I think I'm all set now, but thanks for the pointer to the recipes.

[ursula]

You're welcome!