Poor Man's Potato Soup
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- Опубликовано: 5 дек 2016
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My mother was born during the depression, one of 13 children, and all my life she made the recipe her mother used, which was even more poor than this one. They seldom had chicken broth, so the recipe is water, potatoes, celery and onions from the garden and salt and pepper, nothing else, I grew up eating this and still do to this day and really like it. I once asked her why some people use milk and a little flour to thicken it, and she said because anyone using anything other than water back then had more than most families. She said with 13 kids, one milk cow, and not enough chickens to butcher often, once a chicken was butchered, it didn't lay anymore eggs, so you had less future meals, you made do. I enjoy seeing videos like this, letting people know you can make meals with less if you need to. Thanks.
Pooch1953 My grandma put butter in hers. I make it and love it
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Pooch1953 yep.
You're describing my mom❤❤ She knew how to cook up some of the best meals on a poor mans budget! She made poor mans potato soup and it was IMO the best way. She'd take leftover mashed potatoes and make potato pancakes, leftover pot of pinto beans and turn them into chili beans for another meal. My mom knew all kinda tricks to keeping us 4 kids fed with delicious meals! She was the best ! Btw I subscribed! Thanks for the video 😁😁
Thank you for telling us the story behind your soup. I love hearing stories like that.
Just found you! My Danish gram made huge pots of mashed potatoes for the next day. Her soup, mashed potatoes, lots of diced onion and scrap bacon fried in bacon fat, bone broth, salt and white pepper, more milk if needed, or roux if too thin. Big knob of butter and chives before serving. Toasted bread and home canned fruit. Everything but the milk and flour came out of the land. Absolutely delicious to a kid. Poor to us meant being hungry, so we weren't poor.
Diced onion, scrap bacon in fat and mash... That sounds like you mimah learned an old stable named "burning love"
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My mother had a large family to feed. Her soup was water, potatoes, celery, salt, pepper, butter and milk added at the end. She served it with grilled cheese sandwiches. I had the bright idea one day to thicken the broth with potato flakes. It's wonderful. I kept the rest of the package for next batch of soup. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Thank you!
I’m sure paring the soup with grill cheese was a smash hit! ☺️
Jan Ambrose
My grandma and mom used to make this just like your recipe.
I made it for my daughter when she was growing up. I still make it today for myself.
I love this soup.
Jan Ambrose...Thank you, for the wonderful tip.
I find that partially mashing the cooked potatoes also helps thicken it somewhat.
I make a simple potato soup by boiling potatoes in water with salt and pepper. When they are cooked I add milk then serve with some fresh diced onions and shredded cheese. Just the way my mama made :)
I make it like you do from my family also.
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Yummy
Thnx Whitney i wz lookn fot super simple and plain. 👍😁
Chopped onion is a must.
Never Tryed with dried onion.
If u don't have chicken stock.
Water with Chicken Boulion will work. Its a depression soup.
Have you ever made it with sweet potatoes.
OMG. This is how I grew up!!! We didn't drink the cornbread milk quite the same, we had milk over our cornbread as if it were cake, due to our Mom adding sugar to the cornbread. It was our dessert. I can't believe some people still do this at your young age!! Thanks for sharing sweetie. Just subscribed.
Lovely video. Fun to see how Americans in different states cook. In France we always would make a roux with the butter and flour and cook over heat to rid the flour taste, than add to soup. We make potato soup almost weekly come winter and we use unpeeled diced red potato, a large diced yellow onion, six cloves of peeled diced garlic, some diced stalks of celery and two peeled diced carrots. Never have added meat or cheese. Then I serve with homemade croissants and butter.
Ooh! Would you mind sharing the recipe?! :)
Seriously? What recipe? You need a recipe?
Sounds delicious.
How I make my soup except for roux. I use milk for creamyness and leftover mash potatoes or dried instant potato flakes for thickening. If I had it, a small can of cream corn. Not so much garlic though. I like to use Mrs Dash garlic and herb and a little salt and butter for flavoring.
I make my potatoe soup almost the same way @Beth but i use mushrooms instead of carrots and I make my roux with butter and flour and add milk slowly as its cooking til the right thickness..
I just started watching you found you through Amanda Im a single dad with a son who has disabilitys so your frugal meals give me alot if help. everything is so expensive here in california Thanks to you and Amanda
I was raised on this, of course mom only used water and onion. Now with my own kids I fix it for them, but they like to call it loaded baked potato soup as I put cream in place of water then add sour cream, green onion, bacon bits, and cheese in each of the bowls. Now the milk and cornbread my Pap got me hooked on when I was 4-5, my dad, my oldest daughter and I still to this day eat it 🤗. Great memories.....
You can also thicken with instant mashed potato flakes!
My Dad from Oklahoma used to "drink" cornbread Milk we thought he was crazy until we tried it. It's strangely good.
My mom made us eat cornbread & milk too. We would crumble up the cornbread in our bowl & pour in the milk, we didn’t like it much lol
If you had a container of saved bacon drippings (grease), a spoonful of it added to the potato soup plus some parsley flakes and some celery flakes would definitely add to the flavor of the soup.
My grandma lived through the depression. Her potato soup has noodles in it!! Our entire,(and I mean 100s) family loves it like this!! We peel, chop potatoes, chop a medium onion, add chicken broth or water, let it boil until potatoes are starting to get tender. make sure its at a rolling boil, add noodles. cook until noodles are done. Add salt, pepper, and milk and butter. Its ready!!!!
We had this once a week growing up. My mother was raised during the depression, so that is what they ate. Also, she made cornbread in a cast iron skillet like you did. It was simple and delicious.
I'm from Iowa but live in Georgia now and we ALWAYS had fresh onion with meals! I grew up scooping my food on to a big piece of onion, lol! My very southern gentleman of a husband never heard of this and thinks I'm crazy! Hahaha! We made this soup to! I want some! Thanks for the memories! Its been 40 years since I had this!
I have thicken mine with various flavors of instant mash potatoes. I also do that with anything I need to thicken. Really adds flavor, as opposed to flour. Nice video. Yummy. Shows people you can eat very well no matter their budget. Potatoes are very healthy. Thanks for video.
Just found this. My mom use to make plain potato soup which I absolutely love! My family prefers potato soup with all the cheese and bacon and chicken soup and sour cream. Just give me to poor mans potato soup anytime!!
Love this recipe.
I made poor mans potato soup for my husband today.
Water, salt, pepper, potatoes and ranch dressing.
Yes.....cooking just like momma made. Grew up eating like this along with lots of beans and potatoes.
Awe! My Daddy used to eat milk over crumbled cornbread for dessert a lot. That was 50 years ago and I've never seen anyone else do that. Thanks for the memory. Love your videos. ~Donna
I love simple potato soup, it's so comforting! Also I use cold buttermilk and hot cornbread. That is excellent! I remember when we didn't have buttermilk my dad would ask for some "sweet" milk and cornbread. Great memories.
HAD TO SUB. ENJOYED THE VIDEO AND IT IS VERY TIMELY FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW. THE ECONOMY MAY BE GROWING BUT ALONG WITH THAT WE GET INFLATION. COULD YOU DO MORE POOR MAN RECIPES FOR US POOR FOLKS. LOVE YOUR DOWN TO EARTH PRESENTATION STYLE. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
The french thickening method you described is called a "roux." Equal parts fat to flour, usually you start the roux first, before adding the soup liquids.
I use a masher and mash the potatoes a bit to thicken or an immersion blender to make it a creamy soup ;). I also add onions in with the potatoes to give flavour ;). it's one of our favourite soups
Not a soup potatoes on corn bread didn't look very appetising at all
Jenn in Kanata
Jenn in Kanata
Hazel Evans
That sounds just like the soup my Mom would make me in the 60's whenever I was sick. I miss it and Her very much.
I like your recipe and your simple way of doing things. I can not afford to buy expensive food, so this works for me ! Thank You !
When seeing the cornbread milk, I thought, "well tats different" until I remember my mom always made us toast milk for a cheap good sweet snack.
Heated milk, butter, sugar, add pieces of toast.. sir until all combined. Omgosh, so good especially when u had a sweet tooth and there was nothing else to eat.
My grandma made poor man's potato soup with potatoes, onions, in water, boil til taters are fork tender. Add PASTA, yes, pasta, lol, boil til pasta is done. Add margarine, remove from heat, add milk. Salt and pepper to taste. Great stuff!!!!
to make the potato soup you don't need flour slurie just smash the potatoes and that will thicken it as it cools down cuz during the depression you used the flour for making breads and cakes and gravy only then you cook you chopped onions in butter until they are soft then u add them to the potato soup and add your milk but you set aside a cup of the water that you cook the potatoes in for making it thinner if its too thick
My best friend and I have a tradition when she comes down. We eat cornbread and milk and stay up all night talking:) #gottalovethesouth
I bet its up all night munching carpet.
made me cry at the end. my grandpa taught us cornbread n milk. lol great vid. keepin it real
Adding a can of sweet whole corn adds a fresh pop of extra flavor and then I always add whatever meat I might happen to have - this soup is a great base for whatever else your culture calls for - different chiles are great to add!
I've been eating and making this meal my whole life. Depending on the time of year (garden) we would add different vegetables, but almost always carrot and onion.
Look for pork neck bones on sale-they work so well for anything you would use a bit of pork for-this soup, beans, greens. They are usually pretty cheap but if you find them on sale, stock up-they are surprisingly meaty, very tasty and easy to avoid the bones or clean them out.
Yes! That would definitely be yummy!
Yum!!! I Love it!!! I like my cornbread with buttermilk. I grew up on a farm in Ga and this was how I was taught to cook. Cast iron cornbread is the best!!!! Love your channel.
Buttermilk and Cornbread is good as well 😊
Celery seed is great in the soup and chicken and dumplings to!
you can mash up some of the potatoes in the soup to thicken it if you dont have flour etc..
I thought so too, not until completely smooth just chunk up a little
I live in South Carolina. I make potato soup similar to yours. Instead of cornbread & milk, I love biscuits & milk! Southern food is best because it's made with LOVE!
Charles & Gerri Hendricks, so no other region or country puts love into their cooking?
That's just wrong.
I felt comforted watching this.It reminded me of home where cornbread and buttermilk was supper.
My grandmother and me used to eat cornbread & milk or biscuits & milk for a snack before bedtime when I visited her. I was a kid then. I'm 73 now. Old timey goodness.
I just LOVE me some potato soup & cornbread .. My favorite way to eat it ... Thanks for sharing !!!
Thank you! It’s a comfort meal for us!
My mama always made potato soup for me when I was sick. Her "recipe" was a lot like yours -- very simple and simply wonderful!! And cornbread & milk was a special favorite of hers. (I never quite enjoyed it, myself!) Thanks for the recipe and the memories!!
Thank you for the recipe
I'm sick at home this was a wonderful escape to your kitchen
I use boullion cubes when I make soups. Theyre cheap and taste great. No need to salt the food either. I even use them to make a simple gravy too. Just boullion, pepper, flour, a little oil and water.
I make my potato soup like that but I take the potato masher and smash a few to add little thickness too, I love cornbread and milk sooo good! Love your videos, thanks for sharing!
Cornbread with the soup is a wonderful idea!
I also had an observation that sliced carrots in the soup would add value but not really add to the cost because carrots can be gained for around a dollar a bag. (Celery also cheap.)
I also like the idea of promoting soup with no cheese products in them. I've talked with several people that feel that cheese products in stores and restaurants make them feel sick or get infections easily. Whether that's true or not some people just don't like cheese in soup. Some people think that the number of people sensitive to dairy and cheese products may also be related to antibiotic abuse in growth of meat, poultry.
Personally we like to have a heavy amount of potatoes per person ratio in soup, but that's just us.
Good job!
Not true at all. I eat cheese and diary products every single day. Unless they are lactose intolerant. I buy organic or ulta pasteurized milk. I also eat real cheese non processed. Like a nice Brie.
Hint: Instead of using flour or cornstarch to thicken, you can use instant mashed potatoes. :-)
I thought I was the only human that eats cornbread and milk, I was raised on it. Early in my military career the chow hall had cornbread on the menu so when I finished my meal I crumbled two pieces into a bowl, added the milk and when I looked up everyone at my table was staring at me like I was crazy lol.
LOVE me some cornbread and milk ---- my granny and my mom used buttermilk instead of milk
Jiffy with lots of sugar 😋
Oh my word!! I feel like I'm a kid again. My mom made potato soup for me whenever I was sick as a child (milk was the broth, rather than chicken stock). And whenever she made cornbread (always in the cast iron skillet), and usually for "soup beans", we had milk 'n bread for dessert. This brings back such good memories for me. I never really cooked like this myself, because I married a "city boy", and never learned to like good ole down home cookin'. LOL
tkwilson4585
Its a depression soup. You add your milk to the liquid. Water works but Chicken bouillon added does make better or stock.
In a pinch you could add dried milk or canned. Taste good even with no milk or butter. Onion a must.
tkwilson4585
He doesn't know what he's missing. ..lol..but I understand. .I also married a city guy. .California and they do thing way different so it was a challenge for sure. .but I did get him on board with some good ol biscuits and gravy. .
My paw paw Joe always made this for me when I visited him. This makes me miss him. Good memories😊 I think I will make this soon.
This is a great video and a fantastic recipe thanks for sharing
I know this is old vid, but I keep bullion on hand for flavoring water and stock up on broth when sale at holiday. I save bacon left overs and sometimes even use mash potatoes from another meal. Then again, I cook a roast and can eat at least 4 days. Day 1 roast and gravy, Day 2 open face sandwiches, day 3 use half roast for Bar B Q, day 4 Irish potato soup. Left over potatoes for either soup, stew, or faux twice baked potato.. figure I can use one roast at 11.99 and potato. Chicken goes much further when de-boned for servings. Great video!!
My dad liked cornbread and buttermilk. If we didn't have leftover cornbread he used saltines instead. A lot of that depression cooking apparently was pretty good. Have you ever watched Clara's "Great Depression Cooking" channel? Sadly, she passed away several years ago but her videos are still up on RUclips. She had a lot of stories about the depression along with the recipes. Your potato soup and cornbread looks delish! Will be making this for sure.
My husband was just telling me about Clara's "Great Depression Cooking" RUclips videos about a month or so, ago. Thanks for reminding me I need to check out her recipes. :)
Yes, buttermilk for the cornbread!
I got Clara's cookbook. It is awesome.
@@dianestewart7917 I didn't know she had one ! Thanks for commenting
@@g.cosper8306 girl, I got it on amazon.
I kinda make a similar thing to go with my cornbread. I use green beans and add bacon and an onion. It was a cheap meal my mother would make when I was growing up. It's a real comfort food for me today.
I like plenty of onion cooked in my tater soup and I also thicken ALL my soups and love cornbread in most of them. My parents and grandparents both eat cornbread and milk in sometimes with buttermilk.
I know this is 4 yrs later but I noticed no one brushes butter over the corn bread when it comes out of the oven.I do this with biscuits and cornbread.Great taste
@@gayemoorefield9473 That's bcoz It's better to split your piece of cornbread like a biscuit and put butter on it, you taste the butter much more than just brushing the outside. I live in the south and I don't know anyone who doesn't split their cornbread or biscuit and put butter , butter and jam, or butter and honey on it before eating it. We don't eat either without something on it or it being crumbled into our bowl of soup/chowder/stew/chili which is how we eat it or with gravy on it.
We make this, but instead of garlic powder, we use parsley. Yummy!
Cornbread and milk! One of my favorites. I can't have left over cornbread and not finish it up with a glass of milk! Yummy!
LOVE IT!!! Thanks for making this video!!!!
This is how my mom made potato soup! My dad always had cornbread and milk as well!
You get more nutrition if you leave the peels on. 👍 A little purslane (a free forage food if you know where to look) is nice with potato soup, too. 😊
Wow! The second you crumbled the cornbread, my mouth started watering. It took me back to my mama's table on the farm when I was a young teenager. Thanks for the memories! Will definately be doing this one.
Don't forget to add a little sugar to that cornbread n milk. Yummm
Yum! Loved this video and after watching I love reading the comments filled with tips, tricks and variations to expand my knowledge. I could eat poor man's potato soup every day following all that was shared and never repeat. Something so simple, with everyone's family recipe shows the diversity of our lives. Can't wait to get started trying them :) Thanks everyone for sharing!
Mixing flour and butter in equal parts, the french call it "Beurre Manie"
Yes! Thank you!! I said in the video that it’s not a roux, but called something else.
I make this kind of soup all the time....but with water and onion....loads of potatoes...and to make it more filling I do dumplings right in the soup. :) Then to kick it up....I add bits of bacon. To further it, we top it with cheese and sour cream. That the one we call loaded.
Your kitchen feels s warm and loving.
I make something similar, but I sautee some onions at the beginning and then I add the potatoes with some red bell peppers. When it is ready to serve, I add a little cream to each dish and throw a little chopped cilantro on each dish. Of course it changes it a little bit, but it is great. Best wishes to you!
I bet a little red pepper would be good in it. Yum.
When I'm lucky I save my ham bones for my potato soup, boil the all day till the meat falls off I also add celery and onion the rest is the way you do yours.
My dad does cornbread and milk. He also likes homemade bread and milk. My mom made potato soup when I was growing up and we didn't have much. She just used milk, butter and potato plus salt and pepper. We really were having a hard time at that point. I hated it. I still can not eat potato soup. But I have to say that with the chicken broth it looks kind of good. I am thinking of giving it a try again one of these days.
Thank you so much for sharing your poor mans potato soup! This is the way my mom always made her potato soup and I do it the same way now! If we have cheese we put it on top but I haven't added sour cream, can't say why but will try it now. We had 4 kids in our family so my parents always saved money anyway they could but we always had plenty of super tasting food to eat. It is amazing how great food can taste just using simple ingredients! I can remember my mom thinking her potato soup with cornmeal many times! We also had cornbread with dinner every night, it is something my dad just had to have! Boy he was not a happy man if we were out of corn meal and he had to have white bread! As kids it was always so funny to us when he didn't get his cornbread. He loved cornbread with buttermilk which I thought was gross but I enjoyed it with sweet milk! Thanks again for sharing!
Like Jenn in Kanata, I mash some of the potatoes. Then I add a can of creamed corn. When local stores have can sales, where you can get canned veggies for thirty or forty cents a can, I stock up.
This looks so yummy, I'm definitely gonna try this
That looks so good
My dad loved cornbread and milk. Umm, brings back memories. Thank you for this video.🤓
Looks great
This is the first of your videos that I have viewed & I found you to be a natural, with a truly delightful personality. Your kitchen is lovely & obviously the center of your home. That soup had my mouthwatering in mid-morning. LOL I will definitely be making a pot of it to enjoy! Thank you & God bless!
My poor man's potato soup has a base of chopped cabbage and onion sauted in butter (or marg) until soft. I add chopped peeled potatoes, peas, and chopped carrots, then sprinkle with a lot of flour. I add water to cover and stir well; add salt, pepper, garlic powder, bouillon powder and marjoram; then simmer until done. This makes a thick and chunky soup.
Wow that looks fantastic thanks for the recipe
Both potato soup and cornbread and milk are staples in my household! Thanks for the video!
I made this soup today , it was a hit! 😊
I just love watching cooking videos on you tube!!! Looks good. Super cute family. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you!
My dad loved milk and cornbread. If there was cornbread he had to have milk and cornbread. He called it his dessert! He was born during the end of the Great Depression.
My granny was Irish so her soup was cut up potatoes cooked in a pot with water then she would take Lard probably animal I used veggie lard put the lard in a pan with flour and brown this is the gravey and u add the potato water to it add salt and pepper . The best part is you put onions cut up in kinda ring form and soak it in apple cider vinager. What I forgot today you put that flour broth in the water and potatoes . Finally greatness is you have your soup and those onions in vinager make it amazing
I was brought up on home man soup...we had this..taters..carrots..and what ever we had ...thanks for sharing..God Bless
Looks so yummy! That's one of our family favorites... Great job! Toodles⛄
Yum. I've been craving potato soup & yes I would rather have cornbread & milk than corn flakes any day.
I live in KENTUCKY and we call it milk and bread, Great video im going to make it for dinner!
Potato soup and cornbread, yummy!! I sometimes use instant potatoes to thicken mine.
Got to try this. Looks delicious!
Looks wonderful! I would dice onion and Freg celety and cook with the soup and just use water then milk and flour at end. I had never thought about using chicken broth but that looks so good! I'm going to stop at Walmart tonight for potatoes and celery as I have a little ham and going to make potato soup now for tomorrow. One of m favorite winter meals. I had not made yet this year but you made me crave it. Yum!!
To thicken, I boil a few extra potatoes and remove them from the pot. I then process them in a blender with any seasonings I need to add (if any) then add back to the pot.
I use milk butter onions spices bell pepper garlic celery and I leave it thin but using milk not water it is not too thin. Buttermilk will help with thickening and flavor. I use ham or soup bones sometimes. spices chipotle powder and liquid smoke parsley and chives.
Yum. My mom always made this growing up. I still do. Memories.
It's such a comforting meal.
Love the tea towel word play, very cute! I made a memory board this year with a painting canvas for the backing, never thought of making it magnetic. Roux is the french word your looking for i think and i cook mine in the skillet until the flour isnt raw anymore.
I love cornbread and milk and potato soup too! Looks great!
Your potato soup looks delicious I also love your kitchen very homy and your husband pick a beautiful color for your kitchen turquoise sea I will make that soup with my corn bread thank so much
We used to have the same soup except mom used green beans and bits of ham. I loved it.❄❄❄❄❄❄❄
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The corn bread and milk thing is the exact way I eat cake and cupcakes. In milk with a spoon!
love all of your vidoes tangi !! you are so great :)
Nice! I'm from New England, and we love potatoes! Anytime I can add a new potato recipe to my collection is awesome! :)
Potatoes are definitely a staple around here. I hope you try it and enjoy it. It's a very simple dish, but very comforting.