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Answer for the clue "Basis for soup ", 5 letters:
broth

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Broth is a liquid food preparation, typically consisting of water , in which bones , meat , fish , cereal grains, or vegetables have been simmered . Broth is used as a basis for other edible liquids such as soup , gravy , or sauce . It can be eaten alone ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled. 2 (context countable English) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English broĆ¾ , from Proto-Germanic *bruthan (cognates: Old High German *brod ), from verb root *bhreue- "to heat, boil, bubble; liquid in which something has been boiled" (source also of Old English breowan "to brew;" see brew (v.)). Picked up from ...

Usage examples of broth.

As a carminative injection for tiresome flatulence, it has been found eminently beneficial to employ Chamomile flowers boiled in tripe broth, and strained through a cloth, and with a few drops of the oil of Aniseed added to the decoction.

Only Tulla, unbeknownst to the grownups, but before our eyes as we looked on with a tightening of the throat, took long avid gulps of the brownish-gray broth in which the coagulated excretion of the kidneys floated sleetlike and mingled with blackish marjoram to form islands.

Ned dozing in the hut and Melia and Eliza preparing broth and doughcakes for their meal, Jenny set off for the cove where, over a year ago, she had cemented her friendship with the dark-skinned aborigines.

When ready to serve, remove 1 cup of broth from pot and stir into miso paste until smooth.

Return broth and miso paste to the pot, remove from heat and stir gently.

Bianca followed her and mooned about the kitchen, getting underfoot and upsetting a pot of broth, till Primavera scolded her and sent her off.

By midday, however, she was drinking thirstily of whatever was offered, and by evening she was protesting that broth, juice, and water were not enough for a wolf who needed to regain her strength.

The quagmites had swarmed through a quagma broth, fighting and loving and dying.

The driver, a Moor as Enderby took him to be, was stewy in the armpits -- no, more like a tin of Scotch Broth.

What she reads from lips around her, lips trying to be helpful, is that she is eating something called Swit steak--pounded beef cooked in broth and catsup.

Now, for the first time, I tasted them freshsweet and crunchy arid tenderin a restaurant on the outskirts of Kyoto called Kinsuitei that serves, in thatched pavilions along a shaded lake, a many-course lunch of fresh bamboo: bamboo grilled on bamboo skewers, bamboo shredded with seaweed, bamboo sliced like sashimi with a soy-based dipping sauce, bamboo floating in soup, bamboo simmered in broth, bamboo deep-fried as tempura, and bamboo chopped in rice.

He imagined her body floating there, red cuts on her neck, her pale heavyset corpse as bloated as a sausage tortellini in broth, her gray cropped hair waving like a sea anemone.

Three men crowded about the substantial fireplace, discussing the advantages of their weapons, while Lady Worthing and another woman chatted in a corner, and the servants bustled about laying a feast of scotch broth, game pies, venison stew, and crusty bread.

Fillet of sole amandine was tasteless, decomposed, and swimming in broth, and the almonds had not browned.

Executor Nom Anor toyed idly with a sacworm of dragweed broth while he waited for the shaper drone to finish its report.