Scottish Harvest Festival Soup Recipes

In Scotland the Harvest Festival usually takes place during September. Offerings of fruit and vegetables are placed around the church altar for a thanksgiving service that would make sure there was a good crop for the next year. Congregation members who did not grow their own vegetables or fruit bring caned goods. After the service the offerings of fresh produce and canned goods are given to those less fortunate. People take great pride in decorating the churches and often keep the best of the harvest from their own backyard crops for this festival. At the end of the service the produce items that have been left as offerings are each blessed and sent to hospitals and other institutions for the sick and needy. In addition to taking lots of our garden produce to church, my mother used to make gallons of this soup and then hand-deliver it to some residents of our village who not only were less fortunate than we were, but also were too infirm to prepare foods for themselves.

Provided by Millereg

Categories     One Dish Meal

Time 2h

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

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Growing up in Scotland certain things were staples in our diet. We ate a lot of root veggies because my aunt and uncle ran a farm. Herbs and spices also were not all that common when I was little. This is a very easy soup to make with the vegetables that grow very easily on the east coast of Scotland but are easily found in many grocery stores. We would eat it almost every weekend. The turnips and onion especially give it a phenomenal taste, precluding the use of stock.

Provided by Converting to vegan

Categories     Vegan

Time 1h20m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

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Rich, earthy root vegetables blend with savory spices and the tartness of apples in this wonderful soup from Barbara Marakowski of Loysville, Pennsylvania. "A friend gave me this low-fat recipe after my husband's cardiac surgery and now, it's our favorite. It gets even better with reheating!"

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Lunch

Time 1h15m

Yield 12 servings (3 quarts).

Number Of Ingredients 18

Nutrition Facts : Calories 134 calories, Fat 2g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 3mg cholesterol, Sodium 404mg sodium, Carbohydrate 27g carbohydrate (9g sugars, Fiber 5g fiber), Protein 4g protein. Diabetic Exchanges

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You won't find this one in the Campbell's Soup section of your local grocery store! When I was a child, this was a family favourite and my mother made it fairly often. Nowadays, oxtails are becoming increasingly hard to find, although you might get some from an old-fashioned butcher or meat market. Therefore, some folks now substitute inexpensive cuts of bone-in beef. Here, in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, I can occasionally get oxtails from the meat department at some of the Giant Food supermarkets. In my opinion, it is well worth the hunt for oxtails, because the taste is very distinctive and different than any beef soup.

Provided by Millereg

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 2h50m

Yield 40 ounces, approximately, 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

Nutrition Facts : Calories 134.8, Fat 6.5, SaturatedFat 4, Cholesterol 15.2, Sodium 991.1, Carbohydrate 12.9, Fiber 2.2, Sugar 5.8, Protein 4.4

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I started developing this soup for a RecipeZaar cooking contest. Finally finished it, a bit too late for the contest! A hearty soup, add bread and you have dinner.

Provided by Galley Wench

Categories     Vegetable

Time 3h20m

Yield 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

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