soup

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Blend in a cup of the stock, and keep adding the rest 1 / 2 cup at a time until the soup is the deisred consistency.

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  1. noun A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
  2. noun A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup.
  3. noun Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:
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  • Making the soup was a giant step in that direction, anyway. —  Garwood, Julie - The Gift
  • Geoffrey Ford came in when the soup was already on the table – a good-looking fair-haired man a little run to seed. —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
  • Tortilla soup is a Southwestern soup that comes in a few variations. —  Blogtimore, Hon
  • According to Chester Moran, the soup is an excellent way to improve the immune system, eyesight, and overall health.
  • Obviously, this soup is a little more labor-intensive than my usual throw-it-all-into-the-pot Monday night soups (when was the last time you strained YOUR soup?). —  Raising Five
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soup:   soups
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  1. Middle English soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. Soup up, from soup, material injected into a horse to make it run faster (influenced by supercharge).

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  1. = Dutch soep = Middle High German Greek suppe = Swedish soppa = Danish suppe = Icel.sūpa, soup; from Old French (and F.) soupe, soup, broth, pottage, sop, = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian sopa, soup; from Middle Dutch soppe, sop, a sop, broth, Dutch sop, broth, = Icel.soppa = Swedish soppa, a sop: see sop. Soup is a doublet of sop, derived through Old French, while soup, n., is a native variant of sup.
 

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