If you wanted to make a thick soup and realize that you had about 1/3 of the cream needed how would you thicken the soup?
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1) sour cream, which could change the flavor, but almost anything you add to thicken it will change the flavor, including wheat flour. Cream itself is not really that thick, but when it's acidified, it is. When I added lemon juice to cream when I was making a pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving, it made it thick and sour like sour cream, which is what the recipe called for.
2) The classic French method of adding egg. This is a bit tricky. You have to beat a couple of eggs well, and then add very hot water while continuing to beat it--otherwise you'll end up with scrambled eggs or egg drop soup!
Once this mixture is thick, beat the soup as you slowly add the mixture.
3) Starches: cornstarch or wheat flour. If you don't brown the starch in a little butter first, though, you'll get the flavor of raw grain in your soup. Not good.
4) Various gums, like xanthan, guar or yaccomanen (konjac) flour. These have no flavor and no starch content, and do not need to be heated in order to thicken something. A little goes a very long way: about 1/5 to 1/3 the amount of flour will do. It's very easy to turn your soup into a pudding this way so be careful!
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Corn starch is a good second choice if you don't have white flour. Gelatin is a third option, but its thickness only really comes as the soup cools down some. Only go with unflavored gelatin, and only use gelatin if you don't have flour or corn starch. Hope this helps, and good luck!
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M$Add some appropriate ingredients to the soup because less cream will make the soup lack taste.
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