Sopa de Puchero

Ingredients

• soaked garbanzos
• meat
• fresh bacon
• rancid bacon
• onions
• garlic
• rice, vermicelli, or Italian paste
• chorizo
• whatever vegetables are in season

Method

1. 1

   Boil water and add soaked garbanzos, meat, fresh and rancid bacon, onion, and garlic.

2. 2

   Allow to boil slowly, skimming off the scum.

3. 3

   Once cooked, drain the broth to make Sopa de Puchero by adding rice or vermicelli.

4. 4

   Afterward, add chorizo and seasonal vegetables to the remaining stew and let it simmer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The gourmet's guide to Europe (1903) by Newnham-Davis Lieut.-Col., page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

fresh bacon, rancid bacon, onions and garlic. When the water boils, the soaked garbanzos are thrown in. In most kitchens in Spain the mixture is allowed to boil as rapidly as possible, but the classic tradition is that it should boil slowly, and that the scum should be taken off. Unless the mistress of the house happens to be in the kitchen, the scum never is taken off, for Spanish plain cooks much resemble plain cooks in other countries — only more so. The liquid of this stew forms the Caldo , or broth, and by adding rice, vermicelli, or Italian paste, the broth becomes Sopa de Puchero. When the broth has been drained off, chorizo , a sausage of pork and red pepper, a sort of blood pudding, and whatever vegetables are in season, are put in and allowed to stew. The stewed meats being extracted are served as Cocido , and in well-to-do families are put on the table with the vegetables ; but in poor families the meat, bacon, &c., form a separate dish, and are called La Pringada , Gaspacho is a cold mixture, the staple Spain 275 lunch of the peasant, who for a change eats in the vintage season a bunch of grapes and "some bread. The better classes drink it iced, and it makes its appearance at dinner with the salad. It is a compound of many things — bread crumbs, bonito fish, pepper, salt, tomatoes, oil, vinegar, garlic

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