A right pea souper
This week, I give you a recipe with a history, potage Saint-Germain.
After last week’s crème du Barry, named after the Comtesse du Barry, this week I bring you Potage Saint-Germain, named after the Comte de Saint-Germain, Louis XVI’s minister of war, in this, my helter-skelter guide to the French aristocracy of the Eighteenth Century via the medium of soup.
The romantic story goes that this soup was created because our fr…
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