Recipe needed for Sorpus (sp?)
 

All I know is that it's a portugese soup. Any help would be greatly appreciated,...thanks very much :)

I live in an area that has a huge portuguese population, and tons of portugese restuarants... The common soup served at thise restaurants is a portuguese bean soup recipe... (which is really quite good, and you can improvise whatever you want in it)

Portuguese Bean Soup
1 lean ham hock
4 potatoes, chopped
1 10 oz Chorizo sausage (Spanish sausage)
1 minced onion
2 chopped celery
2 chopped carrots
1 minced clove garlic
2 cans of kidney beans
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1 head of savoy cabbage (or some sort of greens, I've used Kale, spinach, watercress, whatever green is avaialble)

First you boil ham until meat comes off the bone, or until soft. Then
add the kidney beans, potatoes, chorizo, onion and carrots. Then
after 20 minutes, put in the rest of the ingredients. Then wait 10 minutes
then add a dash of red pepper then your done.

I just reached for my favorite cookbook, Soup, a Way of Life by barbara Kafka -- there's nothing in the cookbook with any variation of the spelling of sorpus - the portugese soups are

Brocolli di rape and garlic soup
Garlic Soup with Tomato
TOmato and bread soup
Portuguese Cod Soup

Do you know what's in the recipe you are trying to find?

Hi,
Thank you very much for your help :)! What you listed is very familiar (I lost the recipe) but, I do remember needing pickling spice and cheese cloth.

This one in googling it - had sauerkraut in it - not exactly portuguese -- but it's got the pickled type flavor you might be going for...

Portuguese Sopa

Portuguese Sopa
4 servings

1 lb. linquica (Portuguese sausage)
4 cups sauerkraut (rinsed)
1 cup chopped yellow onions
2 cups drained garbanzo beans
1 cup chopped red bell peppers
2 cups beef or chicken stock
1 cup finely chopped or grated carrots
1 cup instant mashed potatoes (optional)
2 Tbsp. chopped garlic
1 bay leaf
1 cup burgundy wine
1/2 cup Madeira wine
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper

Peel the linguica and slice into 1/4 inch rounds. Cook in a skillet
or microwave just long enough to remove the fat. No longer than 2
minutes on high in the microwave.

In a large stock pot or soup pot add the olive oil and saute the
onions, garlic and bell pepper until the onions are translucent.
Add all the other ingredients except for the mashed potato flakes.
Simmer the soup for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add the
mashed potato flakes to thicken the soup to a desired consistency.

I thank you so much for these recipes :)!!! I was having a hard time finding pickling spice and cheese cloth anyway. The two recipes you sent seem way easier,...I like that! Your help is so much appreciated :)!!!

The first of the two soups sounds pretty good, save that as another recipe to try, thanks. As for the second, despite having alot of german in me I've never been able to stomach sauerkraut :P