Farmhouse Vegetable and Barley Soup

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Richly flavored vegetable soup is no problem when you’ve fussed over homemade stock. For a weeknight version, we needed to get creative with pantry staples.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 1¾ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most recipes for hearty winter vegetable soups, it turns out, are neither quick nor easy. For a satisfying soup that doesn’t take the better part of a day to make, we started with canned vegetable broth. To this we added soy sauce and groun...

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