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Cock-a-leekie
Cock-a-leekie soup is a Scots soup dish makit wi leeks an chicken stock, aften thickent wi rice or sometimes baurley. The springheidit recipe addit prunes durin cuikin, an traditionalists still add a jullienne o prunes. While it's cried "Scotland's Naitional Soup", it likely came frae Fraunce.[1] Bi the late 16t hunneryear,[2] it had makit its wey tae Scotland, whaur the ingans wis swappt oot wi leeks,[3] The furst recipe wis prentit in 1598,[3] tho the name "cock-a-leekie" wisnae uised til the 18t hunneryear.[4] The vegetarian version o the soup has leeks, an micht include mixed vegetables, chicken flavoured meat substitute an/or prunes.[5] HistoryThe furst kent mention o the soup is the Orchtertyre House Book (1737), an accounts book that recordit a denner o 'cockie leekie fowlls in it'". The aerliest recipe is frae the Victorian era cuikbeuk writer Isabella Beeton, an is thickent wi "the fine part of oatmeal".[6] References
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