{"id":47672,"date":"2021-02-10T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/soup-will-get-a-dead-man-back-on-his-feet-therese-roelandts-1913-1995\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:02:26","slug":"soup-will-get-a-dead-man-back-on-his-feet-therese-roelandts-1913-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/soup-will-get-a-dead-man-back-on-his-feet-therese-roelandts-1913-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSoup will get a dead man back on his feet\u201d | Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Roelandts (1913-1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-973x1297.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30-508x677.png 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-30.png 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emile and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Maes Roelandts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marraine\u2019s pumpkin soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Roelandts is my grandmother on my mother\u2019s side.&nbsp;&nbsp;Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and my grandfather Emile had five children. One girl, \u201cour little Lea\u201d, sadly lived only a few years, to the deep grief of my marraine&nbsp;&nbsp;and bompa. Six people around the table is a lot of work when they eat three times a day.&nbsp;&nbsp;Moreover, my grandmother was one of the first women to teach: \u201cgimmenas\u201d (gymnastics, PE).&nbsp;&nbsp;That was very revolutionary in those years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Important words from my Marraine:&nbsp;&nbsp;A soup should not boil longer than 7 minutes, otherwise all the nutrients &amp; vitamins are gone. As her son, my uncle Marc Maes, wrote in his religion exam, completing the quote: <em>\u201cMan does not live by bread alone, but also by meat and vegetables.\u201d<\/em> Uncle Marc failed Religion that year\u2026 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 small pumpkin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peanut oil to grease the bottom of the pan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Homemade vegetable stock or 2 to 3 stock cubes, or for those who prefer it, chicken stock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optionally a carrot or a piece of parsnip for a sweeter taste.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lovage, but not too much in pumpkin soup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a modern version of this soup you can add a sweet potato. Those orange potatoes with brown skin that were not known here in our grandmothers\u2019 day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When serving, lay the table with a good pepper mill.&nbsp;<br>A salt mill or fleur de sel is fine too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The secret of a good soup is quite simple:&nbsp;&nbsp;you have to let 1 vegetable speak.&nbsp;&nbsp;1 vegetable is the boss and determines the flavour, the other vegetables complement the flavour of the main vegetable.&nbsp;&nbsp;Today we take the example of pumpkin soup.&nbsp;&nbsp;A very healthy vegetable packed with vitamins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I prefer not to write down weights; you may use your own feel&nbsp;&nbsp;and creativity to get a full flavour.&nbsp;&nbsp;Depending on the pumpkin you choose, you add vegetables that make the flavour more intense.&nbsp;&nbsp;This pumpkin recipe contains no onion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peeling a pumpkin is quite a job.&nbsp;&nbsp;Put on some nice music and take your time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The easiest way is to divide the pumpkin and peel it piece by piece. You may cut fairly large pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cut flesh should be lightly fried, sweated.&nbsp;&nbsp;For about five minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is good for releasing the flavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marraine often used&nbsp;&nbsp;lard, but I prefer a vegetable oil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are best off always keeping peanut oil in the kitchen.&nbsp;&nbsp;It gives off no flavour and can be heated to high temperatures.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marraine often tied together a bouquet garni to throw into the soup while she cooked.&nbsp;&nbsp;A bouquet garni can be made up of dried bay, thyme, rosemary and parsley.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you tie it to the handle of the saucepan, it is easy to find again. &nbsp;Bay from the garden is best. &nbsp;Never add fresh bay. &nbsp;Grandmothers know that fresh bay is slightly poisonous and dried bay leaves are 100% healthy. &nbsp;The poison disappears during drying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may add 1 stalk of fresh lovage ( maggi\/lavas) but for pumpkin not too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After cooling and fishing out the bouquet garni, blend and it is ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add pepper and salt to taste (I simply put them on the table, a good pepper mill and salt mill or fleur de sel) and in a contemporary version you may sprinkle a little fresh paprika powder over it when serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simple, nourishing, healthy dish for every wallet! &#8211; Kiki Didden, granddaughter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-31.png 766w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-31-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-31-508x679.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emile and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Maes Roelandts. Marraine\u2019s pumpkin soup. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Roelandts is my grandmother on my mother\u2019s side.&nbsp;&nbsp;Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and my grandfather Emile had five children. One girl, \u201cour little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}