Problem
Where to eat a typical Czech meal in Prague, which is not too expensive? but not a sausage of suspicious origin from a stand, but somewhere you can sit, out of the rain, with free toilets?
Answer:
A small restaurant with a sign in the window or on the door advertising soup in bread.
Story
For days I had wanted to each reasonably priced local specialities. seen the signs and wanted to try it.
The one we tried, the first was beside the Kafka museum.
You could try this at home. I plan to make it. Buy a round bread with a firm crust or any shape but a round looks like a bowl. Slice off the top. (If only one loaf, slice in half horizontally.) Scoop out the loose bread leaving enough edge to hold in the soup. Pour in hot soup with hearty filling of meat and or vegetables or casserole, ideally a thick soup with thick filling so it doesn't soak too far into the bread and melt or break it up. Replace bread lid and serve with a sprig of parsley or greenery on the side, plus, of course a soup spoon.
Incidentally, in England soup spoons have a round bowl.
More tomorrow.
Angela Lansbury
