Jenny Lind's soup is a soup named for popular 19th-century singer Jenny Lind. She is supposed to have used this soup to soothe her chest and found it to be beneficial to her voice before performances.
The dish is made from mashed rutabaga or sago,
In popular culture
The soup was the hook for a joke in many British and Irish newspapers, including the Western Daily Mercury, for more than sixty years: "“Why would Jenny Lind make good soup?" – "Because she's neither Alboni (all bony) nor Grisi (greasy)".