Ok, thanks Brenda. Perhap I'll try that tomorrow as I've got some stew in the refrigerator, & might try it to thickening it just as an experiment. Thanks allot for posting this at this time. I'm trying to learn how to do this, so I appreciate it. I'll have to just try it, I guess! Might learn alot! Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Daniels" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:52:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [PD-LIFE] Thickening My mother made vegetable soup and used corn meal to thicken the broth. It never thicken it stiff just enough so the broth was not watery. She canned vegetables at the end of garden season. When cold weather arrived she got a big pan and put a roast in the pan with water. When the roast was done she sliced the roast in bite size pieces and added 3 quarts of vegetables and about 1/2 cup of corn meal. That sounds good with all this cold weather. She put the left over soup in the quart jars and put in frig. It did not stay there long. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message