Boron Elgar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:32:44 -0500, Nancy Young

> >Found this soup, Tabatchnick's. They had different soups, but the
> >cabbage soup caught my eye. I was picturing it to be something like
> >Hungarian cabbage soup (always a mistake, you know you're setting
> >yourself up for a disappointment), without the meat. Whatever, at
> >the very least I'll get some nice hot broth out of it.
> >
> >So much for that idea. It was sweet to the point of extreme, and
> >not especially liquidy, more viscous. Is that some sort of tradition
> >or something? a very sweet soup? I never heard of such a sweet soup
> >unless it was a fruit soup, maybe.
>
> Not a tradition except with Tabatchnick. They are not very good IMHO.

(laugh) Okay, thanks, for some reason I thought they had a decent
reputation. I mean, I wasn't really expecting homemade or anything,
but geez. At any rate, I'm in the hunt for a recipe for the soup
that does not involve beans, just ground beef and tomato/paprika
broth, with cabbage. Obviously I will just wing it.

nancy