I agree that it could be useful for applesauce. It would probably be good enough for cooking the grapes if I ever get enough for a grape pie.
I don't think sugar belongs in this kind of soup, but I believe it sometimes belongs in other kinds. When my father made tomato soup from the tomatoes in our garden, he added a spoonful of sugar some years and a slug of cider vinegar other years. It depended how sweet the tomatoes were. And there's cabbage soup.
My parents both liked cabbage soup very much, but they disagreed about it so strongly we never had it when I was growing up. My mother's family made a cabbage soup that was very, very, sour. (I think it may have included both vinegar and sauerkraut, as well as cabbage. But I never tasted it.) You had to add sugar at the table, like you add sugar to tea. My father's family's cabbage soup was sweet-and-sour. Again, I never tasted it. I know it had raisins and onion, and I would not be a bit surprised if it had sugar as well.
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Date: 2023-09-12 04:24 pm (UTC)I don't think sugar belongs in this kind of soup, but I believe it sometimes belongs in other kinds. When my father made tomato soup from the tomatoes in our garden, he added a spoonful of sugar some years and a slug of cider vinegar other years. It depended how sweet the tomatoes were. And there's cabbage soup.
My parents both liked cabbage soup very much, but they disagreed about it so strongly we never had it when I was growing up. My mother's family made a cabbage soup that was very, very, sour. (I think it may have included both vinegar and sauerkraut, as well as cabbage. But I never tasted it.) You had to add sugar at the table, like you add sugar to tea. My father's family's cabbage soup was sweet-and-sour. Again, I never tasted it. I know it had raisins and onion, and I would not be a bit surprised if it had sugar as well.