I’ve often heard that leftovers can be turned into wonderful soups, but was taken aback when a hundred-year-old cookbook referred to soups as the “antigarbagepail.”
As I remark in another portion of this work, what won’t go into a salad will go into a soup. It is very true. The soup kettle, if you will forgive me, should be a sort of antigarbagepail. Many a time and oft has my family smacked its collective lips and said, “Um-m-m, that’s good soup. What kind is it?” And when I repeat the component parts they sit aghast – but they don’t stop eating it!
The Calorie Cook Book by Mary Dickerson Donahey (1923)
The author may be right, but personally I prefer to “repurpose” my leftovers to make soup. . . or to use leftovers to “enrich” my soup. . . .or . . .
Words convey a lot!
Agree! 🙂
Very strange indeed! I call it planned creative use.
It is a strange way of describing how to make soup! I like your description much better.
It took me a minute to decode the word.
I know. It’s strange how the author ran several words together – though it reminded me of the Twitter hashtags sometimes used today where several words are combined.
It’s all part of the same game though. Not letting good things go to waste. These soups are called ‘old boot soup’ in my house. Even though no footwear is involved.
How true- soups can be very budget friendly. “Old boot soup” is a fun name for the soup.
We call such soups “kitchen sink” – as in, put in everything but the kitchen sink – which then goes into the name!
What a fun name!
I’m glad that term didn’t come forward to this century. Great fun, Sheryl.
Some terms just don’t work in today’s context!
That was always called “Vegetable soup” Nothing went to waste! 2 T. of peas – just put them in the container. When the container was full enough, it became soup. My mother would add half a can of V-8 and water and a bouillon cube and we had soup. It was always a surprise as to what veggies would be present.
Your mother sounds very frugal. Back in the day, cooks were so much more careful to avoid waste.