If you put some of the bark of the holly tree into an old sauce-pan with a little water, and stew it slowly on the fire, you will get a sticky white stuff.
You're going to have your pot of soup, your blender, and then another vessel where you're going to land your final blended soup, and then ladle in some of your soup into the blender.
In a five and a half quart dutch oven or soup pot, over medium heat melt two tablespoons of butter and we always use unsalted butter in all of our cooking so we can control the salt.