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Liverpool Lamb and Vegetable Soup (Scouse)

Meat recipes This is a traditional recipe for Liverpool scouse, also known as "lobscouse". The sauce is not thickened, and it is usual to serve with preserved beetroot or red cabbage and white bread with butter. An even more impoverished variety of this dish is 'blind Scouse', which features no meat.

Liverpool Lamb and Vegetable Soup (Scouse) prepared recipe
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  • Read all 4 method steps from beginning to end.
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Method

  1. 01

    Remove the meat from the bone (if needed), and dice it.

  2. 02

    Heat a little oil in a large saucepan. Add the meat, and brown it.

  3. 03

    Add the chopped onions, carrots, and water or meat stock, and as many potatoes as possible.

  4. 04

    Simmer until everything is cooked.

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Source & licence

This recipe was adapted and reformatted from Wikibooks Cookbook . Text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Image: CC BY 2.0, credited to Radarsmum67 from Liverpool, UK.; view original image record .