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Cooking & Baking

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11. Both onions and cabbage can be sweet

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:18 PM

Feb 2024

I have had this happen with turkey soup, and I really didn’t like the sweetness. I think it was the onion. Not Vidalia, BTW, just yellow.

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Why is this soup sweet? [View all] spinbaby Feb 2024 OP

I'm guessing the carrots made it sweet, we can do it Feb 2024 #1

My thought as well. niyad Feb 2024 #2

There weren't that many carrots spinbaby Feb 2024 #5

Your soup sounds great, by the way. My guess would be the carrots, niyad Feb 2024 #3

Carrots yes. And the sugars in onion come forward LuvLoogie Feb 2024 #4

The tomato paste perhaps Yonnie3 Feb 2024 #6

I have noticed that carrots can vary in MOMFUDSKI Feb 2024 #7

Carrots definitely and tomato paste (to some extent) hlthe2b Feb 2024 #8

Some root vegetables Marthe48 Feb 2024 #9

I suspect the tomato paste Retrograde Feb 2024 #10

Both onions and cabbage can be sweet Easterncedar Feb 2024 #11

Lots of sweet stuff in it Warpy Feb 2024 #12

Did you put thyme in it? Trueblue Texan Feb 2024 #13