broth

[pjgriffo]

What is the difference between broth and soup.?
Is there some specific ingredient or cooking method that makes it broth.

[Clanad]

It may be of some use to understand the source of the terms. One source indicates thus: "The etymological idea underlying the word soup is that of soaking. It goes back to an unrecorded post-classical Latin verb suppare soak', which was borrowed from the same prehistoric German root (sup-) as produced in English sup and supper. From it was derived the noun suppa, which passed into Old French as soupe. This meant both piece of bread soaked in liquid' and, by extension, broth poured onto bread.' It was the latter strand of the meaning that entered English in the seventeenth century. Until the arrival of the term soup, such food had been termed broth or pottage..."
Long winded way of saying they're really, the same...

[annie0000]

I always thought broth was a soup that you made with broth mixture - which I think is mainly barley.

[heathfield]

Here in Scotland any soup containing barley seems to be labelled 'broth'. Certainly it's a required ingredient in 'Scotch Broth'.
But as I understand it, any cooking stock used to be referred to as a broth. Old recipes would say to 'Boil the remains of a chicken carcase, and use the broth to...etc'.