Hello All!
That makes THREE days now without a single message arriving here. GRRRRR. So 
just to keep my record unblemished, I'm going to send this anyway.
If you don't think you like jerusalem artichokes, take heart, neither do I, 
but this soup is wonderful. Before the winter's out, do youself a favour and 
try this recipe of which Jane Grigson says. "They (artichokes) were soon 
ousted as a staple crop by potatoes and retreated to the kitchen gardens of 
the middle and upper classes to provide an exquisite winter soup."
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      Title: Palestine Soup (Cream of Artichoke)
 Categories: Soups, Vegetables, Dairy, British, Soups
      Yield: 6 Servings
    450 g  Jerusalem artichokes (large)
    115 g  Onions; chopped
      1    Garlic clove; crushed
     30 g  Celery; chopped
    120 oz Butter
      2 sl Bacon; unsmoked, chopped
   1500 ml Light chicken stock
      2 tb Parsley; chopped
      4 tb Double cream
           Salt & pepper
           Cro–tons
  Artichokes can be peeled raw like potatoes, but as they are so
  knobbly it is less wasteful to scrub and blanch them in boiling
  salted water. After about 5 minutes, or a little longer, the skins
  can be removed quite easily (but run the artichokes under cold water
  first). Keep the water they cooked in, unless it tastes very harsh
  (it does sometimes when the artichokes are beoming old).
    Cook onion, garlic and celery in half the butter until soft. Add the
  bacon and stir about for a few minutes, then the peeled artichokes and
  4/5ths of the stock. Simmer until the vegetables are cooked.
  Liquidize or sieve, adding the remaining stock and some of the
  original cooking water if the soup needs diluting further. Put the
  remaining butter together with the parsley and cream into a warmed
  soup tureen. Reheat the soup to just under boiling point, correct the
  seasoning, and pour it into the tureen. Stir it well as you do this,
  to mix in the butter, cream and parsley.
   Serve with the cro–tons.
  Recipe Jane Grigson "English Food"
   MMed IMH c/o Georges' Home BBS 2:323/4.4
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All the Best
Ian
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