Grandmum Sewhoy's Soup

Daphne Sewhoy

Difficulty: variable

Time: 1½ hours

When my grandmum Daphne Sewhoy came to visit, she never came empty-handed. She brought food, normally: shortbreads, licorice allsorts, scones, sweet pikelets, and sometimes this soup. Take all my belongings, but never take this soup! The quanties below are only a guide, apart from the soup mix and the water.

Ingredients

• 1 packet of King's Soup Mix
• 9 cups of water
• 1 parsnip
• 2 carrots
• 2 celery stalks
• 1 leek, or two big onions
• 2 tbsps (roughly) of dried macaroni pasta

Guidelines

Grate the parsnip and the carrots, slice the leek or onions thinly, likewise for celery. Throw the lot into a pot with the soup mix and water.

Bring the mixture to the boil, then simmer it (stir occasionally) for 1 hour, or until the odds and ends are all soft. Serve or store in a glass jar—when it is cooled, or the jar might explode!