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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

milk soup vs. dairy soup

English answer:

No

Added to glossary by Anna Maria Augustine (X)
Jul 4, 2006 23:10
17 yrs ago
English term

milk soup vs. dairy soup

English Other Food & Drink
Hello native speakers of English,

Does a term 'milk soup' sounds familiar to you at all? Or may this be a literal translation from Polish (zupa mleczna)?

Please see: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1427178?gr=y
Responses
4 +3 No
3 Hungarian soup v. Jewish soup
2 cream soup?

Discussion

Anna Maria Augustine (X) Jul 5, 2006:
Thank you. I don't speak Polish unfortunately but the word "manna" is similar to the English biblical word for bread, and there is another similar word in French also meaning bread, and also often biblical.
PAS Jul 5, 2006:
You cannot say "porridge with noodles" because it's either/or. The base is the warm (hot) milk, which you pour over one of the other things I mention above. That's why it's called "soup" - because you eat it hot, although it's solely a morning meal.
PAS Jul 5, 2006:
To FrenchtoEnglish: To a certain degree you need to distinguish the two, because one "input" is "manna" - very fine (i.e. porridge) and the other is rolled oats (liek you would find in musli for example), which you boil and put in the milk to eat.
Anna Quail Jul 5, 2006:
Sorry - typo. Please read "not the type of..." I don't think you need to mention oatmeal, because porridge is traditionally made from oatmeal.
Anna Quail Jul 5, 2006:
In that case, I would leave the original and gloss. It is certainly not he type of "milk soup" Anna found. 'Soup' could be misleading because (to UK speakers in any case) soup is savoury. You could say, "a kind of porridge with noodles".
PAS Jul 5, 2006:
Polish "milk soup" is an old breakfast bane of small children. It is like cereal, but the milk is heated and eaten in a bowl with noodles, oatmeal or porridge. Porridge would probably pass as a translation, but doesn't cover all the other options.
Anna Quail Jul 5, 2006:
What is in your Polish 'zupa mleczna'? I have never heard of either milk soup or dairy soup.

Responses

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Selected

No

Soup made with milk, perhaps?

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Note added at 5 mins (2006-07-04 23:15:30 GMT)
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Bread and milk is like soup made with hot milk and pieces of bread in it with sugar. I think it is an old Victorian recipe.

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Note added at 6 mins (2006-07-04 23:16:57 GMT)
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Ooopsie. Sorry, it exists:

Milk Soup Recipe - Mrs Beeton Revisited from The FoodyMilk Soup Recipe - Mrs Beeton Revisited from The Foody UK & Ireland.
thefoody.com/mrsbsoups/milksoup.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages


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Note added at 10 mins (2006-07-04 23:20:37 GMT)
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I had a look at the recipe. It's the same as bread and milk as my grandmother used to make it (and I liked it)

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-07-04 23:21:24 GMT)
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http://thefoody.com/mrsbsoups/milksoup.html

Sorry about all these addendums. I'll leave you in peace !!!

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Note added at 13 mins (2006-07-04 23:23:34 GMT)
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Dairy soup is different (with potatoes)

Farfel-Potato Dairy Soup Recipe - Home CookingFarfel-Potato Dairy Soup Recipe. This comforting soup is a traditional Jewish recipe.
homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blss9.htm - 26k - Cached - Similar pages
Peer comment(s):
agree Anna Quail : Agree with your original answer -"No! " The "milk soup" you managed to find is not the same thing as Miroslawa's Polish 'zupa mleczna'. See the asker notes above.
11 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
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agree Romanian Translator (X)
1 day 10 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all very much!"
10 mins

Hungarian soup v. Jewish soup

It looks to me as if milk soup is a traditional Hungarian soup and dairy soup is a traditional Jewish soup
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54 mins

cream soup?

I don't know what kind of soup this is, but I've never heard of either milk or dairy soup. I think you would generally say "cream soup" regardless of whether you actually used cream (as opposed to milk).
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