When Does A Broth Become A Soup??

[jd_1984]

Or vice versa...?

[ummmm]

When you add other ingredients into it.

[-Talbot-]

I thought a broth was a soup.

[Retrochic]

Depends which country you live in. North America Broth = Stock -a clear liquid flavored with meat or veg. In Uk especially Scotland, Broth = a clear soup with the addition of cut up veg, pulses and grains and sometimes meat. I think Broth always has a clear base, no cream or pureed veg, where soup can be pureed,creamed or have potatoes for thickening.

[baza]

is it only a broth when it is made in Scotland/

[DTCwordfan]

And then there is consommé....

[DTCwordfan]

Good old Lancashire has broths and like Scotland, broth-els.

[pixie373]

Soup becomes broth when you're 60.

[sunny-dave]

Is that a waist measurement, pix?

[BlackadderV]

I would say that a broth contains meat, vegetables and pulses.

[DTCwordfan]

This is what the Oxford Dictionary defines 'broth' as:

broth
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Pronunciation: /brɒθ /
Definition of broth in English:
NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
1Soup consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in stock, sometimes thickened with barley or other cereals:

mutton broth

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1.1Meat or fish stock:

the pig made five pots of broth
[COUNT NOUN]: she made a broth from the bones

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2 Microbiology A liquid medium containing proteins and other nutrients for the culture of bacteria:

in vitro cultures were established in MG3 broth
[AS MODIFIER]: broth cultures of intestinal tissue
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2.1A liquid mixture for the preservation of tissue.
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Origin
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to brew.

Phrases

a broth of a boy

Irish Used approvingly to refer to a very lively boy or young man.

[BlackadderV]

So we can safely say that all broth is soup but not all soup is broth.