a simple soup

I had a very tasty soup for lunch. It was a mulligatawny – steaming hot and delicious. Served with roti bread. Scrumptious but hard to spell. Not that that’s an issue. Regarding soup, scrumptiousness is more important than ease of spelling.
But, as I’d decided to write about the deliciousness of my lunch, I thought I’d look it up and get it right.
While hot on the trail of the spelling of mulligatawny in my trusty Pocket Oxford Dictionary, however, I was completely distracted and then entranced by ‘mugwump’. It’s a noun. It means “person affecting superiority to party politics”. It’s derivation is from North American Indian (?? Which North American Indians??) for ‘great chief’. I think I know some mugwumps!! But I’m still not sure on the spelling of mulligatawny. I’ll try looking it up again tomorrow.