Traditional Polish Soups.

Might just be a recipe of his own, or a family one.

The condensed milk doesn't appeal much.

Definitely not in soup! It's too sweet. For desserts only.

After adding water and vinegar it is not so sweet anymore. Another possible soup is Zalewajka ze śmietaną.

Nie wiem jak Ty, ale ja uwielbiam zupę z kurczakiem i dużą ilością cebuli.

A.ja uwielbam zurek!!
Ale chlodnik tylko w lecie.

Condensed milk exists in sweetened and unsweetened versions.... I remember once using the unsweetened version in an attempt to make huancaina sauce...

I had no idea what this was so I googled it and the recipe includes evaporated milk.

I didn't know there was an unsweetened version of condensed milk but have just worked out that this is known as evaporated milk in the UK. All these years and I never knew what is was.....

There are a few different versions, I was trying for an approximation of the Peruvian version. In Bolivia and Northern Chile they use peanuts .

Both are really delicious but also heavy.... so very, very heavy....


Ta da!

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In South Yorkshire, it's called shackin' milk, because tha shacks it ovver t'tinned peaches.

Given, it's an odd name... especially since there's powdered milk (that seems more evaporate.....).

Sounds like comfort food :)


Aha!

It was used mainly for pouring on desserts in the UK ( as in Jon's post ), but some people used to have it in coffee in place of milk. I always thought it tasted a bit weird.


Oh yes, I remember having that over tinned fruit, but sadly, the juice was never drained so you'd end up with some horribly milky mixture :(


Apparently, the milk is heated to evaporate over half the water and the evaporated milk is what's left. Powdered milk will have had all the moisture removed.

I'd happily forgotten that.

There's also sterilised milk which we never had. Big in Bradford where they call it model milk. Probably because a century or so ago everyone in the slums of big industrial cities knew someone who'd died or got seriously ill from food that had gone off so it sounded safer. That and it lasted longer in the days of no fridges. I've often wondered what it tastes like.

In parts of west Africa they have super-condensed milk, thicker than the thickest cream. They use it for dipping very fresh soft dates in.

I absolutely love it but haven't seen it since I was a kid.

My mother was from Oswaldtwistle and we used to go and visit my grandma who always got the sterilised milk and the Angel Delight out. I think it was definitely a northern thing as I've never seen it down south. Tastes lovely on its own, you wouldn't want it in tea/coffee.


That sounds quite yummy.

If you all use powdered milk, you really should use Carnation Evaporated Milk, the milk of contented cows!

I did not specify in my original post because I was not certain of the correct name or spelling, but my parents called it phase (fase). I could not find any references on line for this name.

@Cieniewski
Were they from near Lublin?

This does remind me of something.

It is called reduced-the process.
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You have a dirty mind.

Dirty, Ironside?
Trust you're being flip..or you misunderstood.

@Cieniewski
I've been thinking about the soup you mentioned.

There's a type of soup from the Lublin area called forszmak (not the same as the Jewish dish with a similar name that contains fish). There are lots of recipes, lots of variations. In the kiosks round Lublin that sell hot dogs etc they always have a version of it, sometimes creamy with sliced ham in.

Forszmak doesn't typically have potato dumplings, however there's no reason that someone shouldn't put them in. It often has potatoes in, and often doesn't.Most of the recipes online for them are quite dark, however I've had paler ones that contain cream. Sometimes it's so pale, it's almost white.

Maybe the soup your parents made was their own favourite version of or variation on that?

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I once tried a Vietnamese soup (Pho or something) and I liked it as much as the Polish chicken soup / rosol. The picture above reminds me of that.

Plenty of good pho places in Warsaw and other Polish cities these days - I really like the one on junction of Wilcza and Krucza

You mean Tran Tran? It's decent, but when you're in that neck of the woods Uki Uki is two minutes away and the kama-age ebi udon there is probably the best soup in Poland.

I've not been to that one or Tran Tran however there's an excellent pho place on Chmielna. South side of the street, towards the Nowy Świat end, plain decor, very popular.