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Yup. Much can be said in favor of Fancy Food Productions (as done by people who like to play around with Elaborate Projects), but really, _soups_ are best when relatively simple (even though each step might need to be done correctly or even perfectly). The recipe you followed (or simplified, somewhat) appears to be an exercise in Conspicuous Consumption (of time & effort) and the Ostentation of having an Expensive Chef. (Mind you, it's quite possible to write up "How to make stock" in such a way as to make it sound almost as complicated as "How to write the source code for a spreadsheet software program".) On another hand, all this Complexity sounds particularly appropriate for something connected with "War and Peace", which I recall as being a remarkably (and even intolerably) complicated novel.