Caraway Soup (Rascová Polievka)
Ingredients: Water, celery, caraway seeds and dumplings (3 egg yolks, flour and salt)
Prep Time: Half an hour
Here is the recipe for Grandma Gasso’s Caraway Seed Soup. She does not work off of exact recipes. Like all old Slovak ladies it is a pinch of this and a taste of that and that is how she cooked. She is 98 now so she does not do much cooking these days! This soup is very simple. Water, celery, caraway seeds and dumplings. There is nothing fancy about this but it is hearty with the dumplings and delicious. The smell of caraway seeds is wonderful.
Boil 8 cups of water. Put a tea strainer full of caraway seeds into the boiling water. In frying pan brown 2 heaping tablespoons of flour. Add 1 ½ teaspoon of butter (about the same amount of butter as flour) into the flour and mix. Add about 3 spoonfuls of water from the boiling water to the flour mixture. Add 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds to the boiling water (I use a bit more). Add a few chopped celery stalks to the boiling water. Boil the water for about 15-20 minutes. Add the flour mixture to the boiling water, stir and simmer a few minutes to blend and thicken.
In a new bowl mix 3 egg yolks, a pinch of salt, 1 cup of water (I used whole milk) and 2 cups of flour. Thin this out if needed so you can drizzle this into the pot to make dumplings. Pour the dumplings into the boiling caraway seed water in a thin line while stirring. I find this makes too many dumplings so I typically have another pot of boiling water and just make the extra dumplings in another pot of boiling water. My feeling is that you can never have enough dumplings!
Cook for about 10 – 15 minutes or until the dumplings are cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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I dont ever remember her making this…she put alot of different things together..and they always were tasty…and caraway in potato soup is devine…thanks for sharing this memory of Grandma Gasso…
I remember having this… yummmmooooo and the caraway in the potato soup as well…
One of my favorites when I was a little kid on a cold, winters daay. Another favorite was my grandmother’s Turnip Soup with her own DRIED turnips! Does anyone have the recipe?
I made this soup almost same way, only I first brown caraway seeds in butter for 2 min. add flour and rest ingredients from recipe. Soup is stronger and healthy that way, taste better.
I think they invented 1/2 of the Slovak recipies during the wars when they had nothing to eat in the cupboards…. a meal out of a few carway seeds, water, celery,…make dumplings out of some eggs/flour…
Very simple meals for even simpler (poor) times.
Haha, very much possible! And I am glad to hear you enjoyed the green bean soup. It’s one of my favorite soups.
Moja mama robila rascovu polievku s vajckom,vajce sa rozmiesalo a a vlialo do horucej polievky. Polievka sa varila iba s cibulou a rascou vajicko nakoniec. Robila sa aj zaprazka/muka a olej alebo mast/Polievka sa robila pre dojciace zeny ked nemali dost mlieka/ iba to si pamatam.