BAFFLING BEER SOUP: ITS WORTH A DETOUR
Baffling, but true. When you’re hungry, you feel like sharing. Or rather, when you’re hungry, you learn to share. Either way this strange and unusual soup isn’t as far and away as it seems. Baffling Beer Soup is a key player in SOUP & SEX quest to be epic. In fact, it’s more or less a seeking of creative agreements…one beer at a time.
Baffling Beer Soup
Shopping List
Beer: 2 cans (12 oz.)
Lemon Juice: ½ tsp
Sugar: 1 tsp
Cinnamon: 1 stick
Cloves: 2 whole pressed cloves
Cornstarch: ½ tsp
Preparation(German)
First add beer, after your initial sip of course. Then add lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves in large saucepan; bring to boil.Next moisten cornstarch with little cold water and add to pot.
Then cook slowly, stirring for 3-4 minutes.Lastly remove from heat and discard cinnamon & cloves.
Then serve with pumpernickel or rye bread. Of course, you can choose your own succulent.Preparation (Belgian)
To put it differently, this is the same as above. Instead substitute a pinch of ginger for clove. And flour for cornstarch. Then add 3 T heavy cream.Now mix flour with a little beer until smooth. Set aside. Then combine remaining beer, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, pinch salt & pepper in saucepan; bring to a slow boil.
Next reduce heat and add flour mixed with beer. Cook slowly, uncovered, 5 minutes.
Lastly remove from heat and stir in cream.
Server Traditionally With French Bread Cubes. But you make the call.
BAFFLING SOUP NOTES
This is a fun way to get in the spirit—literally! Enjoy this soup with a baked potato or beer nuts. Believe it or not soups can be made with beer. Either light or dark. Even ales have sustained popularity in northern Europe for—EONS! In soups.
You can make them several ways. Above are two variations. Beer soups are not for every taste bud. But there are many buds that do prefer their taste. They fall under the curious soup category. The contents are certainly fascinating and may well add a bit of spirit to your soup collection.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising that beer soups can keep love and lust alive at any age. Even after 69. It’s also a wildly popular way to set your focus on steamy romance and passionate exploits. Just one more way of making some twilight tales of your own.
Because the only thing better than bubbles, is a little HEAD!