Two small carrots, two small onions and a stick of celery make Delia Smith’s vegetable stock, with bay leaves, peppercorns and parsley stalks for flavour. …

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Two small carrots, two small onions and a stick of celery make Delia Smith’s vegetable stock, with bay leaves, peppercorns and parsley stalks for flavour. …

On the table in under an hour, Delia Smith’s fish soup starts with potatoes and three cloves of garlic softened in olive oil. Cubes of …

No prawns, mussels or clams go into Delia Smith’s seafood chowder, a 50-minute soup for 4 made with undyed smoked haddock. The fish is poached …

Started the night before with a bowl of soaking beans, Delia Smith’s black bean soup simmers for an hour and a half with pancetta, onion, …

Deep crimson and earthy, Delia Smith’s beetroot soup is a Polish recipe built on a quick, dark pork stock. The whole beetroot simmer while pork, …

Split peas, smoked bacon and ham stock make Delia Smith’s pea and ham soup for 6, which she calls the London Particular after the thick …

Three slow hours in the oven give Delia Smith’s celeriac soup its flavour, with no butter, no frying and no cream. Celeriac, celery and an …

There’s no chicken or lamb in Delia Smith’s mulligatawny soup, just marrow or courgettes, tomatoes and a potato with onions browned in butter, a pot …

Unlike most lentil soups, Delia Smith’s lentil soup isn’t blended, so whole green-brown lentils, smoked bacon and ribbons of cabbage stay in every spoonful. The …

On a grey summer’s day, Delia Smith’s watercress soup goes to the table hot, and on a sunny one it’s ladled into chilled bowls with …