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What Does 'bring The Vegetables To A Blow' In Recipe Terms Mean (Uk)?

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numan | 08:53 Sat 12th Oct 2013 | Food & Drink
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I've seen this expression, 'bring the vegetables to a blow' in a Nigella Lawson pumpkin recipe, but not being a cook AT ALL, I wondered if it was just a typo for boil, or that this really is a cooking term!
Please help, as my grandchildren are looking forward to the soup this weekend!
PS Wish me luck - I'm gonna need it!
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it appears not to be Nigella's own, so it won't have been proofread http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/easy-pumpkin-soup-4003 to the boil... I suppose. Maybe it was written by predictive text.
09:16 Sat 12th Oct 2013
Must be a typo surely ?
Typo for sure.
typo for what, then? Can't say I've ever heard of it.
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That's what I thought, but didn't want to assume, not being a cook! I've trawled the net and can't find any cooking definition for it, so I guess it is a typo. What threw me, was the phrase 'to A blow' and not 'to THE blow'. I've always heard it as 'bring to THE boil', so thought it must be something else!
I really must try harder..
Thanks x
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'Boil' jno
it appears not to be Nigella's own, so it won't have been proofread

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/easy-pumpkin-soup-4003

to the boil... I suppose. Maybe it was written by predictive text.
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Thanks for all your help everyone. I'm going for 'boil' then!
ive heard the term "bring to A boil" instead of the normal "bring to THE boil"
I have to admit, I'd say 'to A boil'...but that's me.
"Boil the veg" LOL
"open tin" for me
Are you sure it isn't a typo for "bring ... to a bowl", which seems more likely to my (non-cooking) mind :-)

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