A WINTER WARMER IN A TIN (Baxters Scotch Broth)

Member Name: katestuartuk

Product:	Baxters Scotch Broth
Date:	04/10/06 (186 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: GREAT TASTE, EASY TO COOK, FULL OF GOODNESS

Disadvantages: I COULD EAT THIS TILL THE COWS COME HOME!

Baxters Favourites

Scotch Broth

A soup worth coming home for…

If I had to choose between tinned soup or homemade soup, the homemade stuff would win hands down every time. However, there are times when you’re tired, or it’s cold in the kitchen, or you need a wee bit of instant comfort, when the tinned soup calls and you dutifully answer. There are three types of tinned soup that I love above all other tinned varieties and these are:

The Co-op’s own Lentil and Bacon (Mmmmm)
Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup (Devine with cheese)
Baxters Favourites Scotch Broth.

Having already sung the praises of Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, now comes the turn of the best soup Audrey Baxter has ever created!


*****The Packaging*****

The soup is housed in a 415g tin. The tin is made of steel so can be recycled easily. It has a can-pull style top, for easy opening, or you can use a traditional can opener by turning the tin upside down to open. The famous red Baxters logo is emblazoned on the front, along with a photograph of the soup itself, steaming away, in a lovely simple white bowl placed on a tartan rug. Audrey Baxter’s signature is to the right, and to left, and to the right of the picture is a blue sign stating that the tin contains less than 2% fat. The overall colour of the tin is a rich orange/red, and reminds me of autumn colours in the trees. The imagery is very clever in that it conveys the simplicity and good honest quality of the product, which I think is very appealing.

*****How to Cook*****

Using a heavy bottomed saucepan, carefully empty the soup into it and warm through till piping hot on a low heat. Don’t boil, and make sure the larger pieces of vegetable are warm all the way through before serving. Serve with fresh crusty bread and butter for a really filling, wholesome and tasty meal.

*****The Taste*****

This is where we get to the important bit. What it tastes like. Looking down at my bowl of soup, it is full of all sorts of different shapes and colours. It’s very much a patchwork quilt of a soup. The next thing that you notice is the overwhelmingly Sunday-dinnerish aroma. The lamb stock sends wafts of juicy flavoursome stream up into your nostrils and it’s so warming and comforting. Running my spoon through the soup, there are large chunks of potato, carrot, swede and round punctuation marks in the form of pale green marrowfat peas. Not the bright, coloured versions you can buy in tins, but good, home-grown, un-coloured pale ones that look full of flavour, and as I taste one, they are just that. The taste of lamb and soft, sweet carrot explodes in my mouth, and the next mouthful does the same – creamy potato, soft flavoursome onions and bits of lamb, tender and melt in the mouth. Everything in the soup is cooked to perfection, no hard bits to chew on, no squidgy bits to swallow fast. With pearl barley and leeks and cabbage to add texture and yet more flavour, this is surely a soup to be reckoned with! It has a country aroma that brings to your mind a long, harsh winter in the Highlands, with snow up to the letter box, a patchwork quilt about your knees, a gale roaring over the rooftops and a fire crackling bright and warm in the grate. What left to perfect the scene? A bowl of Baxters Scotch Broth, that’s all!


*****Ingredients*****

Water, Pearl Barley, Carrots, Potatoes, Onions, Marrowfat Peas, Swede, Beef, Modified Cornflour, Leeks, Cabbage, Mutton, Salt, Yeast Extract, Lactose from milk, Flavourings with Celery, Dried Mutton, Mutton fat, Beef extract, Vegetable oil, dried onion, herbs and herb extract, white pepper, vegetables.

Contains Milk, Gluten, Celery


*****Nutritional Information*****

Per ½ can:
84 calories
0.8g saturated fat

This is a low calorie meal in a tin, and depending on what you eat with it, it can be a very good choice as a lunch or supper if you are watching your weight. It has all the nutrition of good vegetable content, as well as protein in the lamb and beef. Plus it is really filling and wholesome.


*****How much and Where to buy*****

I usually pay around about 70p for a 415g can of this soup. Depending where you buy it, you might pay a little more, or a little less. Tesco, the Co-op and many corner shops stock it, as it is quite a popular little tin of soup!


*****What I think of this soup*****

I really enjoy this soup when I have it. It is so warm and comforting, and the aroma when it is warming up is just something else! Out of this world! It is such a wintry tasting soup, you can imagine the snow outside and the wind howling and you inside with your big bowl of hot, filling soup, and it just makes me smile when I eat it!


Thank you for reading, Kate x

Summary: A GREAT SOUP FOR WHEN YOU'RE TIRED OR COLD, FULL OF FLAVOUR AND GOODNESS.