This French garlic soup recipe has been provided by M.Lucien Merlin, a garlic grower from Arleaux in Northern France. Don’t be frightened be the amount of garlic that is used.  Garlic when boiled has a completely different and far less pungent flavour than when crushed and cooked. Boiled garlic cloves taste rather like a combination of new potato, mustard and chicken.

For four persons

Ingredients
2 litres of boiling water
2 whole corms of garlic (2 ounces) broken into individual peeled cloves.
1 lb of potatoes peeled and sliced
6 oz peeled carrots cut into slices
Butter / cream / Gruyerre Cheese
Salt and black pepper

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Boil the water then add the garlic cloves, carrots and potatoes.
Simmer until the potatoes have broken down and the soup is beginning to thicken.
Season to taste and then blend in a little butter, cream or Gruyerre cheese. Best with hot crusty rolls.