Changua — Bogotá Milk & Egg Breakfast Soup

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk + 1 cup water
• 4 scallions, sliced fine
• 4 eggs
• 2 slices stale bread or 1 roll, torn
• Big handful cilantro
• Salt and pepper

Method

1. Simmer the milk, water, scallions, and 1 teaspoon salt gently 5 minutes — the scallions perfume the milk into broth.
2. Crack the eggs directly into the barely-simmering milk, spacing them; cover and poach 4 minutes until whites set, yolks soft.
3. Divide the torn bread between bowls — it softens into dumplings-by-surrender.
4. Ladle the eggs and scallion milk over.
5. Cilantro and pepper over the top. Bogotá swears by it against cold mornings and long nights; skeptics convert at first spoonful or not at all — the city accepts both.