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Originally Posted by Ruthxxx
I throw in the onion skins to give a nice golden colour.
My grandmother's chicken soup was always orange. And I never would eat chicken soup anywhere else when I was little because it wasn't orange and that was the way I thought it was supposed to be. When I grew up and started to cook I found out that my grandmother added a couple of teaspoons of tomato paste to the soup. After many discussions with my sister and my cousins about this I asked my mom why. Like whether it made it taste any better or different. Turns out my grandmother just couldn't stand the thought of eating anything yellow so she added the tomato paste. Funny, huh? We were all thinking it was some great family secret.