2008 October - Wedding Soup

Wikipedia defines it like this:
>>The Wedding Soup is a clear soup, based on chicken broth, added with chicken meat, meat dumplings, asparagus, noodles, and raisins.<<
>>The Wedding Soup is eaten in the northern and southern parts of Germany as a traditional part after a wedding ceremony. It is supposed to be the starter of a wedding menue. But is eaten in other parts of Germany as well and it used to be a part of every wedding in the old ages (19th century and such).<<

Okay, here I go now with my wisdom ;-) I have never ever tasted a Wedding Soup with either chicken, asparagus, nor raisins in them... and I am South German, if I may say so. This sort of soup isn't known by my West Prussian family at all. But to Swabians and Bavarians it's quite common, and in my eyes very yummy as well.

Even though I'm more into creamy soups... Usually I buy a few packages of premade soups and then I spice those up with fresh ingredients, herbs and spices. E.g. I add fresh broccoli and califlour to such a soup, or rice and mini sausages to a tomato soup, fried mushrooms to the mushroom soup, asparagus to an asparagus packaged soup and so forth. All that goes with freshly baked pretzels for example. Now I make my mouth water at this early hour.

With the Wedding Soup I do the same. We can buy freshly packaged ingredients at the supermarkets nowadays as well, and I hope I can find according photos on the net, which you should find below my text here. Later on I'll post some photos of my last selfmade soup...

Hopefully your mouth began to water as of my descriptions as well *lol*

Schwäbische Weisheit: 

Essen ond trenka
hält Leib ond Seel z..samme... 

Swabian saying: 

Eating and drinking

keeps body and soul together...