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Flour soup

Today’s soups contain many ingredients, such as vegetables of all kinds, chicken, pork or calf and various spices. Of course, this is just a simple example, because soup recipes generally contain other more or less common ingredients.

However, Victorian families preferred to eat mostly flour soup. There were many types of soups, but almost every recipe contained flour, and the most common kind of soup was literally one that contained mostly flour. For example, they used to opt for brown roux, so they cooked the butter and flour together in a container first, then added boiling water and salt. They could eat this soup when it became smooth, like a cream.

It’s no secret that even today, some cooks sometimes use flour to thicken certain sauces and smooth their texture, but large amounts of flour can be harmful to your health. According to health experts, white flour, for example, can adversely affect your health.

”During the processing of white flour from wheat, a substance called endo sperm is removed from the wheat germ including the wheat bran, which is extremely crucial for your digestion. Apart from that, all the essential nutrients too gets lost during this processing. Which in return, deprives your body from healthy life promoting vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. In huge shelves of supermarket, you also must have noticed that, few manufacturers use the tactic of attracting customers by labeling the products as ‘enriched flour’, which is nothing, but just the addition of three to four vitamins at the cost of ten lost vitamins during processing,” added nutritionist Nmami Agarwal.