Do Estonians have a comfort food?
I believe that we can call our Milk Soup as comfort food. All our Mothers made a milk soup at night. When the child’s stomach had suddenly become so empty 🙂
Milk soup is very easy to make, it gets ready quickly and as milk is rich of B vitamin, it makes you calm and helps you sleep.
However, this comfort food has sometimes been complicated 🙂
During the Soviet times at school on Mondays we were always served a bowl of milk soup for lunch. Of course, I hated it:)
In a very popular book called ” Kasuema” by Silvia Rannamaa, which describes the life of a youngster during the 60s, the ” Milk soup Mondays” were compared to Dickens poorhouses 🙂 believe me, despite the fact that this book was very popular it certainly did not help to rise the popularity of milk soups.
But again, we can call Milk soup a comfort food. On Mondays, you have enough power to start your 🙂 school week.
And yes, you can not believe this, but traditionally the milk soup is served with some spiced sprat (Tallinna Vürtsikilu) sandwiches 🙂
You can replace pasta with rice, barley, semolina or dumplings. Recipe is the same.
For Dumpling Soup bring milk to boil, reduce heat and add small dumplings. Dumpling recipe you can find here.
Milk Soup with Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 l milk
- 200 g pasta
- salt, butter
Directions
- Cook pasta as showed on package 2. Drain pasta and add milk
- Bring milk to boil
- Season soup with salt, serve with butter.
traditionally milk soup is served with spiced sprat (Tallinna Vürtsikilu) sandwiches
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Nice, also the introduction 🙂
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Well, I don’t think I’ll be making this, but the history about it is fascinating. My mother would sometimes make a flour soup, and I actually liked it, but it probably stems from the time during WWII when her mother didn’t have much food to cook.
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Flour soup?! Very interesting. I hope soon see this recipe and story behind this 🙂 🙂
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Nice story! In Romania (where I grew up), pasta with milk it’s also a comfort food, only it’s a sweet version of your recipe – we call it (in a wrong way of course) couscous. I’ll definitely try your recipe! 🙂
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Very interesting, I would try this sweet version, as well.
Yes, this is one twist of Estonia, that we do not eat sweet milk- soup and sweet morning porridge 🙂
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Interesting! I have never had anything like it. Will have to try!
xx K
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Thank you for comment ! 🙂
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I’ve heard about milk soup before, but didnt realize it was a comfort food. It’s interesting how different cultures have different types of comfort food.
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Ok. To be true. This is my definition 🙂 My friends could be said that- this is regular dinner 🙂 🙂 🙂
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So interesting! This is new to me!
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Interesting recipe!
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I’ve never had milk soup–I will have to try that out!
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You welcome 🙂
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I learned something from your post and I always love that. Thanks for bringing this along to Fiesta Friday!
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Thank you ! 🙂
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Oh, Milk soup… it brings some lovely memories for me. You are right, it’s a pure comfort 🙂
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We used to eat a soup like this in Kazakhstan. When it was fancy it had camel meat in it! I think the milk used was often camel milk too which makes it even better. Not bad, but mostly I think, as you say, a comfort food.
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I never eat and tasted camel milk. Very interesting!!!
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The meat is kind of dry as it contains less fat and the milk is slightly salty tasting because of its high mineral content. Also make sure you drink pasteurized,homogenized camel milk for the best -and safest- experience. The raw version has a strong taste which may turn you off.
Cheers.
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Thank you for info!
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I used to have and love a similar milk soup in Romania as a child. The main difference it was that it was sweet. Very sweet! I used to have it mostly at a neighbor’s house, my grandmother refused to make it. 🙂
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🙂
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