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Recipe - soup - Guido (18th Mar 2021 - 15:52:48) Hi everybody, been asked to post a recipe from one of my mothers' cookbooks which I'm more than happy to share. Taken from "Italy the beautiful cookbook" (by Lorenza de'Medici, 1988), here is an ancient recipe for a soup hailing from the Chianti region of Tuscany, whose origins hark back to the 13th century. It is a sweet and sour soup, called a Ginestrata, rich and creamy and good both as a corroborant and also indicated as an aphrodisiac :-), so if you're feeling like you need a pick me up, this is it. Ingredients for 6 people: 1 pinch of ground cinnamon 1 pinch ground nutmeg 1 flat Tablespoon sugar 6 egg yolks Pinch of salt 6cups (1.5L) chicken broth (stock) 1/2 cup (125 ml) Vin Santo (use marsala or another dry sweet white wine if you don't have Vin Santo) 3 Tablespoons (60gr) unsalted butter Mix together the cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. Beat the egg yolks in a saucepan, add the salt, broth and wine and mix. Stir in the butter and continue stirring over moderate heat until the soup thickens. Butter will melt as soup heats up. Do not boil or the eggs will curdle. (so a bit like making a custard....) . Pour the soup into cups, sprinkle with the sugar and spice mix and serve. The soup should be quite yellow, as it's called after a yellow broom flower that grows everywhere in Ghianti, so good golden yolks would work best... Enjoy!! We look forward to seeing you at Guido's soon to enjoy more authentic Italian food.

Re: Recipe - soup - Jules (21st Mar 2021 - 08:52:14) Can I book a table yet?

Re: Recipe - soup - Guido (21st Mar 2021 - 12:58:37) Hi Jules, Apologies, but not quite yet. At the moment we will only be able to open our doors from May 17th, Unless we manage to get out door seating permission from the council, in which case, some tables will be available from April 12th, but very weather dependent. Waiting on consultation period to end, then we will know more, and hopefully start with a lunchtime service as well. Thank you

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