Soups-&-stews/90 recipes

Condensed tomato soup is baked into the meatloaf for flavor, and also makes a tasty pan sauce to serve on the side.

No Christmas feast in medieval times was complete without a 'grete pye'. In some recipes, it could contain many varied meats, but quite often only two or three different kinds were suggested; change the meats suggested here if you wish.

Cold green vegetable soup with poached fish. Source: Olga Gorechev, St. Petersburg, Russia

Salsify is a long, thin, darkly earth-coloured root, can be found in greengrocers's shops in February, also available as preserved ; when scrubbed, it is revealed to be white whithout an obvious outer skin.