My favorite soup is lentil soup then vegetable soup third is tomato soup. The first soup you made peaked my interest big time because I love buttermilk but I think I will also trying the broccoli ham soup that sounds very good to me. Great Video 💛
I like your introductions. I think it's more professional to - not - say "welcome back to my channel." You can reuse the video anywhere and it's not pinned verbally to a platform.
I would try them all. Like you I may add seasonings if needed. I love a good tomato soup, Zuppa, chicken tortilla, broccoli cheese, clam chowder, corn chowder…..well pretty much any good tasting soup! I agree, I love soup at all times of the year.😊
I grew up in Northeast Ohio and soup was something we always had year around. I read once that the most ordered item at restaurants was soup in that part of Ohio. I love all types of homemade soup. I don't serve can soups and only buy cream soups for casserole recipes. Saturday was house cleaning day, and a large pot of soup was made because that didn't create a lot of dishes to wash. The leftovers became lunch for several days. If we didn't have soup on Saturday, we would have it on Monday from leftover Sunday roasts.
My favorite soup but I am sick is cream of potato my favorite general soup is my mom’s vegetable soup which has no recipe if she does whatever had been frozen during the previous time little bit of leftover vegetables that were made for dinner that we had you don’t like a tablespoon of this or that so it was never the same twice. I’m trying every one of these soups. I love everything you choose to do my favorite thing about the soups is that little red Pyrex bowl that was the same bowl in the 60s that we gave my sister’s cat wet food in. It makes me giggle and brings back fond memories.
Cooking the Books is quickly becoming my favorite channel. The recipes are so fun and interesting, and I love hearing the details about the publishing and history of the cookbooks. Having chronic illness, I'm not always up to cooking (and the following cleanup) and the channel scratches the cooking itch. There are so many things I like about the show, the recipes are both familiar and unusual due to the lens of the period they are from. Your channel is so engaging!
I think I really like her Channel too and I'm a carnivore I mainly eat meat but this is intriguing and it's worth having a small sample of soup without making a huge pot full of it
This was my grandmother’s favorite soup book and when we had to put her in assisted-living she gave me her entire cookbook collection and this is still one of my favorite books in it. She has all kinds of notes scribbled in it. I will treasure it forever.
I’m going back to recipe books cuz I’m sick to death of internet recipe sites that you have to battle with ads and pop ups and fake personal stories! Ugh! Great video btw lol!
Sometimes I attach a clip on pants hanger to the top of a cookbook and hang it from the door handle on my kitchen cabinets, in order to hold the book open and keep it up and out of the way. I got the idea from some helpful household hints guy who did a TV show on PBS years ago.
PS...I have been a collector of cookbooks for years. I always peruse one or two before going to sleep and then wake up remembering what a good meal I had...HA!
Oh my gosh, I'm just LOVING your channel!! I'm someone who went to culinary school, worked in the industry for years, and now has a farm-based bakery, so I must applaud your techniques, methods, and overall kitchen knowledge! You've inspired me to go back through my vintage cookbooks (being vintage myself) with fresh eyes, and get excited about "new ideas"!!! BRAVO, and keep going!!!! ❤❤❤
I appreciate that you take the time to appreciate the artistry of each vintage cookbook. It's a shame that the charm of those illustrations and whimsical letterforms is gone today. I have a collection of 1920s and '30s booklets from sources such as Jell-O and Heinz 57, handed down from my grandmother. You learn a lot about the world at that time from those little publications.
So, here I am, in Philadelphia, getting hungrier by the minute at 11:30 pm!! Am going to try all of these, especially the corn chowder!! Thanks so much for this. I really enjoy your way of cooking!!
I just discovered your channel today and I am really digging it. Love your vibe and approach. And, as someone who can't cook at all but dreams to someday be able to, yours is the first channel that I've found that feels like something I could watch and actually learn from. Something about the way you describe what you do and why makes it easy to envision doing it myself.
You will succeed because it sounds like you want to learn to cook as opposed to someone who hates to cook. Anna has a fantastic channel - good luck in your culinary journey!!👍
I am teaching my husband to cook and he's in his seventies so good for you! There's no time like the present. When we were first married in 1977, he firmly declared that he had zero interest in the kitchen. The dining room was his focus. I was very sneaky and introduced the barbecue. I was legitimately scared of gas from a propane tank so I pronounced him my Grill King for safety reasons. He stepped up as men do and from then on it was steady progress in the cooking department. Last night he did a bechamel sauce (flour, butter, seasoning, and milk) for our homemade cream of chicken soup and you should have seen him beaming! For every form of art there is a moment of pride and reflection when you're done but there's nothing like a well prepared meal for creative satisfaction (the sight, the aroma, the feel of steamy goodness). Then of course you eat it so double the joy. Good luck to you! You'll have loads of fun (until the dishes, LOL).
This channel popped up on my feed today. Making my way through the content. Great personality and enjoyable presentation. I actually had no idea others have the 'problem' of collecting old cookbooks. Kicker is I barely cook, but when I see a vintage cookbook when I am out at thrift stores, garage sales, or flea markets, I *have* to have it. Particularly like the church collection fundraising ones or from old defunct local restaurants. I'm almost motivated to break some open and make some recipes after watching some of the videos on here. Very cool.
@@cooking_the_books another favorite of mine was my mom's chicken noodle soup. Back in the 70s, during the height of fad diets, it was advised to bake your chicken when you had it. So we ate a lot of baked chicken. Mom would save the bones and pan drippings. The drippings would get the fat taken off it. When she had about a cup of drippings she would boil the bones, backs and necks to get as much flavor and the meat off it. Strain out the bones add the drippings, about a cup of celery or celery salt, and about 2 carrots. Add in the meat you got from the bones. Bring to boil cook until vegetables are done add any noodle type and as much as you want. S&p in your bowl to taste. If she fried chicken she boiled it first then coated it browned it in a pan finished it in the oven. The water she boiled it in was reduced to a broth and saved for soup too.
Not your fault, but you have managed to make me feel old today. I bought this vintage cookbook new in 1979, when I was freshly out of the Air Force. In the 40-plus years since, I have mainly used the cream-of-everything recipe on page 21…great cold weather soups! That recipe is the reason I bought my first blender.
Three months and over 450 comments down the list, but here's my several cents about soup: I LOVE IT. I love to make it and eat it. I love to buy it from restaurants and eat it. I love to buy it in the supermarket and spiff it up and eat it. Here are a few of the all-time favorites: Mulligatawny -- So many variations to choose from, but I kind of like it as a medium-thick, tomato-based soup with rice, some onions and carrots and chopped apple, and spiced with curry powder and cloves. Tom Kha -- Spicy Thai soup with mushroom and green onion, flavored with lemongrass, galangal (like ginger), coconut milk, lime leaf, and cilantro. Pozole -- Chicken or pork, with chilis and lots of whole hominy kernels (makes it look like a bowl full of molars). Borscht -- My Eastern European DNA cries out for this! The "emeritus" selection is -- Three Flavors Sizzling Rice Soup from a Chinese restaurant in downtown Pasadena, California, that isn't there anymore. The three flavors were chicken, shrimp, and abalone. It made me feel like I was swimming in flavor. And honorable mention goes to -- My very own vegetarian pea soup. Chunky with sautéed mirepoix, sometimes potato chunks, sometimes mushrooms, and the smoky taste comes from a bit of liquid smoke (not from pork product).
Really enjoying your channel. I apologize that I'm binge watching and commenting. Love your personality. Enjoy your honesty and your thoughts. Really enjoy your vintage book review at the end. 👍😋👍😋
You have the best laugh and sense of humor - especially regarding “comments” people make…. I look forward to watching your videos. It’s like going back in time and i love it.
That bird sounds like a blue jay. And after seeing your reaction to the broccoli ham soup, I am definitely going to try it for myself! I will get back to you later with my verdict...
I’m with you about celery soup. Back in the late 50’s my mother never wasted anything. So once in a while she made cream of celery soup. I would walk through the door at lunch and literally gag. I love raw celery but there was just something about the smell of that soup I can still remember 65 years later.
I learned how to cook from the red and black checkered 1970s Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. When I got married all I knew how to cook were box meals like Hamburger Helper and Kraft Spaghetti.
The best thing about soup? Homemade cheese scones. You probably would call them biscuits but they need to be made with butter and full on English Cheddar (not processed)!!I Two regulars in our home were Chicken Broth and Minestrone. I noticed when I lived in the States that you could get Chicken Noodle everywhere but you don't see it much in the UK - our main soups are Minestrone and variations of Cream of Mushroom.
My grandson was my pride & joy for several summers (3/9 years old then) & the little neighbor boy from across the street were best buddies. Both were both very picky eaters UNTIL...I made them some 'Great Depression' potato soup just the way my mother made it for me back in the very early late 1930's when she ran out of $$$, or when I was sick. Chopped up potatoes & onions cooked in water which I didn't drain out...butter, whole milk, hard grated cheese, S&P. They were great fans of this 'Great Depression' soup, but don't understand the history of it. They don't understand what it did to this country. In today's world they are both very close to their forties, & are professional men. GS has his MSW in Social Work, as Mental Health Therapist. Neighborhood boy is now a Doctor of Internal Medicine. So...that's what eating Potato Soup does for you when you are a little child. It can turn you into Professionals in the Medical world. LOL!!! LOL!!! As for myself, I attended Culinary Arts school during College years, & believe it or not, the class spent half a day being taught to make potato soup when there isn't anything else to eat. And, I lived through WW2's food rationing, & the ration books with the stamps from the Government. Mama had her 'Victory Garden' with lots of potatoes growing under the ground. My job was hoeing & weed pulling. If you never had fresh potatoes directly from the ground that were freshly washed & boiled & made into any recipe, you have really missed a beautiful thing. My memories were quickly awakened when you mentioned 'Potato Soup'. Thank you for your thoughts about making this historic soup, and jogging my memories of so many happy things & I am looking forward to watching you making it. Thank you, & stay safe.
I was the one cooking from those books, and even had a child's version of the BH&G cookbook. Fun to see these recipes brought back. I, too, eat soup year round!
Hi,this is Esther from Milwaukee, WI. I watch your program every morning. I love it when you go through your cookbook finds. I just made the potato soup. I added bacon, more salt, pepper and garlic powder. Yum! Definitely keeper. Thank you so much and God Bless
On that potato soup, try adding a bit of nutmeg. It should bring out the more earthier flavor of the potato. For me, just to make it heartier and interesting, I'd add some kind of mushrooms, and garnish with some scallion.
I had a ridiculous week and weekend. I'm off on Thursday, I'm going to send your book (and a surprise) then. Sorry for the delay, I'm the bad. Love your content, you are a warm, welcoming presence when I'm having a challenging time!
Hi Anna. I just discovered your channel. I like the way you make dishes from days gone by. I have a daughter your age and I find it interesting that you cook dishes popular before birth. The bowls you use to prepare the recipes bring back memories.
My family has an old potato soup recipe. My great grandmother grew up on it during the Depression. You boil potatoes and onions (I don't like onions, so I use onion powder) until the potatoes are ALMOST tender (until they only need a couple minutes left to be to your liking). Drain all the water out and cover the potatoes in whole milk. Salt and pepper to taste (I use A LOT of pepper). Cube up a stick of butter, and add to the soup. Heat until the soup is hot, the butter is melted, and the potatoes are done cooking. Crunch up saltines into your bowl of soup, and mix it in. That will thicken the soup and add flavor and texture. The recipe has been passed down in our family, and I crave it when it gets cold!
I love potato/leek/cauliflower, so I will definitely try the potato soup with Swiss cheese, thank you for the recipe! I also saw the recipe for Schnitz und Knepp on the broccoli soup page, which necessitated a trip down the google rabbit hole; so I'll be making that, too!
When I was little, my grandmother used to make potato soup (no cheese though), probably to use up leftover potatoes from the day before. I think about that soup at least as often as men on tikt0k think about the Roman Empire, but I’ve never made it. Maybe this is my sign!
I was born in 1978! I am the youngest of 6 and we had lots of soups and stews so it would be enough for everyone. I'm still a soup person and have to find this book now.
Zuppa Toscana is definitely my fav, but I would try these no problem. Honestly the celery soup sounds good! Lol. The font on the cover of the cookbook reminds me of Cheers.
Nice recipes.. with the third soup, the potato and cheese one...maybe the potatoes could be cooked in a chicken broth? That would add a punch of flavour ..😊
I've got Nessie ladels, too. I adore them. I wonder if some cooking wine would go well in that potato soup. I'd maybe add it with the milk to equal the 2.5 c you needed.
With the potato soup, maybe if the potatoes were boiled in chicken stock instead of water, it would have brought more flavor? Thank you for yet another wonderful video 🩷
I have a favorite BHG cookbook my mom sent me when I graduated college. 1979. It's chapters are divided by months and recipes with what is in season in those months. Plus in the back basics on meat, poultry, breads. Cakes etc. It is wonderfully laid out with full color photography AND line drawings. It is so special to me because she wrote an inscription in it to me and now she has passed. Thanks Anna.
I love soup in the winter. I gave my daughters a good basic cookbook when they mo ed out on their own. My husband always laughs at my soup making. I try to make small amounts and end up with my largest stock pot.
That is the sound of an irritated bluejay. Maybe there's a squirrel sitting on the tree it calls home. I knew a few people like that! 😂 Love that apron!
I’ve made all of those, but people in my family worked for Meredith Corp so all cookbooks (and sewing books) were BHG. I leave the pasta out of the broccoli soup.
Soup season is year round in my house because thankfully Hubby loves soup. But I have to giggle with your tiny little soup pans. I know you are cutting the recipe in half but I have to get out the "canning pot" to make soup. I make enough to have dinner that night, lunch for hubby the next day and a few quarts in the freezer for days that I have no idea what to cook or time to cook. 🙂
We do "Soup Sunday" from September until March or so. I'm always looking for new yummy soups (or OLD yummy soups ;-), I'm definitely going to try a couple of these! On another note, I made "Praline Squares" out of the Betty Crocker Cooking For Two cookbook the other day. I was shocked at HOW DELICOUS that recipe was!! 🙂
re: the potato soup ... cook the potatoes in chicken broth , use a large white onion and some green onions too , add 2 or 3 celery ribs , use evaporated milk and dilute w/more chicken broth and use american cheese or Velveeta ❤❤❤
Just subscribed, even though I can no longer stand long enough to cook! I can still recall when I cooked 3 meals and 3 snacks a day for a family of 6! All from scratch, not because we were poor, but because my ex kept the food budget the same for 6 as it was for 2! Lol
What kind of soup is your favorite? Would you try one of these? Let me know in the comments!
My favorite soup is lentil soup then vegetable soup third is tomato soup. The first soup you made peaked my interest big time because I love buttermilk but I think I will also trying the broccoli ham soup that sounds very good to me. Great Video 💛
I like your introductions. I think it's more professional to - not - say "welcome back to my channel." You can reuse the video anywhere and it's not pinned verbally to a platform.
I would try them all. Like you I may add seasonings if needed. I love a good tomato soup, Zuppa, chicken tortilla, broccoli cheese, clam chowder, corn chowder…..well pretty much any good tasting soup! I agree, I love soup at all times of the year.😊
I grew up in Northeast Ohio and soup was something we always had year around. I read once that the most ordered item at restaurants was soup in that part of Ohio. I love all types of homemade soup. I don't serve can soups and only buy cream soups for casserole recipes. Saturday was house cleaning day, and a large pot of soup was made because that didn't create a lot of dishes to wash. The leftovers became lunch for several days. If we didn't have soup on Saturday, we would have it on Monday from leftover Sunday roasts.
My favorite soup but I am sick is cream of potato my favorite general soup is my mom’s vegetable soup which has no recipe if she does whatever had been frozen during the previous time little bit of leftover vegetables that were made for dinner that we had you don’t like a tablespoon of this or that so it was never the same twice. I’m trying every one of these soups. I love everything you choose to do my favorite thing about the soups is that little red Pyrex bowl that was the same bowl in the 60s that we gave my sister’s cat wet food in. It makes me giggle and brings back fond memories.
Cooking the Books is quickly becoming my favorite channel. The recipes are so fun and interesting, and I love hearing the details about the publishing and history of the cookbooks. Having chronic illness, I'm not always up to cooking (and the following cleanup) and the channel scratches the cooking itch. There are so many things I like about the show, the recipes are both familiar and unusual due to the lens of the period they are from. Your channel is so engaging!
Thank you so much! ❤
I think I really like her Channel too and I'm a carnivore I mainly eat meat but this is intriguing and it's worth having a small sample of soup without making a huge pot full of it
I agree!
This was my grandmother’s favorite soup book and when we had to put her in assisted-living she gave me her entire cookbook collection and this is still one of my favorite books in it. She has all kinds of notes scribbled in it. I will treasure it forever.
How wonderful to have her notes in there too!
I’m going back to recipe books cuz I’m sick to death of internet recipe sites that you have to battle with ads and pop ups and fake personal stories! Ugh!
Great video btw lol!
Thank you! ❤
Sometimes I attach a clip on pants hanger to the top of a cookbook and hang it from the door handle on my kitchen cabinets, in order to hold the book open and keep it up and out of the way. I got the idea from some helpful household hints guy who did a TV show on PBS years ago.
PS...I have been a collector of cookbooks for years. I always peruse one or
two before going to sleep and then wake up remembering what a good
meal I had...HA!
Crab bisque (1953 better homes garden cookbook).
I really enjoy your voice and humor!
Doing my best with what I got is how we all should live. Great video!! Love the birds. 😊
Oh my gosh, I'm just LOVING your channel!! I'm someone who went to culinary school, worked in the industry for years, and now has a farm-based bakery, so I must applaud your techniques, methods, and overall kitchen knowledge! You've inspired me to go back through my vintage cookbooks (being vintage myself) with fresh eyes, and get excited about "new ideas"!!! BRAVO, and keep going!!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for your kind words! I love that you're revisiting your vintage cookbooks. ☺
I appreciate that you take the time to appreciate the artistry of each vintage cookbook. It's a shame that the charm of those illustrations and whimsical letterforms is gone today. I have a collection of 1920s and '30s booklets from sources such as Jell-O and Heinz 57, handed down from my grandmother. You learn a lot about the world at that time from those little publications.
Can I just say thanks for making these in small portions. I'm the only one in my house that will eat soup
You are so welcome! Smaller amounts just work best for my household.
That potato soup would easily make a great loaded potato soup and give it that extra boost you're looking for.
NUTMEG!!!!
Townsends has entered the building.....
😅
That bird has OPINIONS. :)
SO MANY OPINIONS. 😂
So, here I am, in Philadelphia, getting hungrier by the minute at 11:30 pm!!
Am going to try all of these, especially the corn chowder!! Thanks so much
for this. I really enjoy your way of cooking!!
Making SOUP TONIGHT! Mine is lentils n kale!!!!!!
Sounds fantastic!
I just discovered your channel today and I am really digging it. Love your vibe and approach. And, as someone who can't cook at all but dreams to someday be able to, yours is the first channel that I've found that feels like something I could watch and actually learn from. Something about the way you describe what you do and why makes it easy to envision doing it myself.
You will succeed because it sounds like you want to learn to cook as opposed to someone who hates to cook.
Anna has a fantastic channel - good luck in your culinary journey!!👍
Right?!?! Totally great! I just found her recently too and I'm having so much fun!
Thank you! Your comment means a lot! I want everyone to feel comfortable trying the recipes I share no matter their skill level.
I am teaching my husband to cook and he's in his seventies so good for you! There's no time like the present. When we were first married in 1977, he firmly declared that he had zero interest in the kitchen. The dining room was his focus.
I was very sneaky and introduced the barbecue. I was legitimately scared of gas from a propane tank so I pronounced him my Grill King for safety reasons. He stepped up as men do and from then on it was steady progress in the cooking department.
Last night he did a bechamel sauce (flour, butter, seasoning, and milk) for our homemade cream of chicken soup and you should have seen him beaming! For every form of art there is a moment of pride and reflection when you're done but there's nothing like a well prepared meal for creative satisfaction (the sight, the aroma, the feel of steamy goodness). Then of course you eat it so double the joy. Good luck to you! You'll have loads of fun (until the dishes, LOL).
This channel popped up on my feed today. Making my way through the content. Great personality and enjoyable presentation. I actually had no idea others have the 'problem' of collecting old cookbooks. Kicker is I barely cook, but when I see a vintage cookbook when I am out at thrift stores, garage sales, or flea markets, I *have* to have it. Particularly like the church collection fundraising ones or from old defunct local restaurants. I'm almost motivated to break some open and make some recipes after watching some of the videos on here. Very cool.
Lol. You can really hear that tweety bird lol. Cute apron, too! Xxox
SO SO GLAD I FOUND YOU!
So glad to have you here! ❤
I like that bird call in the background. Reminds me of growing up in NJ. My grandmother even had a bird feeder.
My favorite was New England boiled dinner when I was a kid. The diet cabbage soup , chili, and many more . I think I could eat soup everyday.
So good!
@@cooking_the_books another favorite of mine was my mom's chicken noodle soup. Back in the 70s, during the height of fad diets, it was advised to bake your chicken when you had it. So we ate a lot of baked chicken. Mom would save the bones and pan drippings. The drippings would get the fat taken off it. When she had about a cup of drippings she would boil the bones, backs and necks to get as much flavor and the meat off it. Strain out the bones add the drippings, about a cup of celery or celery salt, and about 2 carrots. Add in the meat you got from the bones. Bring to boil cook until vegetables are done add any noodle type and as much as you want. S&p in your bowl to taste. If she fried chicken she boiled it first then coated it browned it in a pan finished it in the oven. The water she boiled it in was reduced to a broth and saved for soup too.
Not your fault, but you have managed to make me feel old today. I bought this vintage cookbook new in 1979, when I was freshly out of the Air Force. In the 40-plus years since, I have mainly used the cream-of-everything recipe on page 21…great cold weather soups!
That recipe is the reason I bought my first blender.
Wow, this book brings back memories! There are some great recipes in here. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! ❤
Three months and over 450 comments down the list, but here's my several cents about soup: I LOVE IT. I love to make it and eat it. I love to buy it from restaurants and eat it. I love to buy it in the supermarket and spiff it up and eat it. Here are a few of the all-time favorites:
Mulligatawny -- So many variations to choose from, but I kind of like it as a medium-thick, tomato-based soup with rice, some onions and carrots and chopped apple, and spiced with curry powder and cloves.
Tom Kha -- Spicy Thai soup with mushroom and green onion, flavored with lemongrass, galangal (like ginger), coconut milk, lime leaf, and cilantro.
Pozole -- Chicken or pork, with chilis and lots of whole hominy kernels (makes it look like a bowl full of molars).
Borscht -- My Eastern European DNA cries out for this!
The "emeritus" selection is -- Three Flavors Sizzling Rice Soup from a Chinese restaurant in downtown Pasadena, California, that isn't there anymore. The three flavors were chicken, shrimp, and abalone. It made me feel like I was swimming in flavor.
And honorable mention goes to -- My very own vegetarian pea soup. Chunky with sautéed mirepoix, sometimes potato chunks, sometimes mushrooms, and the smoky taste comes from a bit of liquid smoke (not from pork product).
I LOVE Tom Kha. 😋 So good anytime, but especially when I have a cold.
Really enjoying your channel. I apologize that I'm binge watching and commenting. Love your personality. Enjoy your honesty and your thoughts. Really enjoy your vintage book review at the end. 👍😋👍😋
You have the best laugh and sense of humor - especially regarding “comments” people make…. I look forward to watching your videos. It’s like going back in time and i love it.
Thank you! ☺
My favourite soup is Cauliflower Soup.
Buttermilk corn chowder!
That bird sounds like a blue jay. And after seeing your reaction to the broccoli ham soup, I am definitely going to try it for myself! I will get back to you later with my verdict...
We grew up with all kinds of soup that were always use up the left overs soups.
I’m with you about celery soup. Back in the late 50’s my mother never wasted anything. So once in a while she made cream of celery soup. I would walk through the door at lunch and literally gag. I love raw celery but there was just something about the smell of that soup I can still remember 65 years later.
I learned how to cook from the red and black checkered 1970s Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. When I got married all I knew how to cook were box meals like Hamburger Helper and Kraft Spaghetti.
The buttermilk corn chowder soup sounds lovely - I'm going to try that, minus the bacon. I do like bacon, but I'm vegetarian, so there you go. :-)
I love potato bacon soup with cheese on top. I wouldn't mind trying the ham and broccoli though. Have a great day
The best thing about soup? Homemade cheese scones. You probably would call them biscuits but they need to be made with butter and full on English Cheddar (not processed)!!I
Two regulars in our home were Chicken Broth and Minestrone. I noticed when I lived in the States that you could get Chicken Noodle everywhere but you don't see it much in the UK - our main soups are Minestrone and variations of Cream of Mushroom.
I'm so excited for soup season! The potato and cheese soup with some added bacon sounds so yummy.
My grandson was my pride & joy for several summers (3/9 years old then) & the little neighbor boy from across the street were best buddies. Both were both very picky eaters UNTIL...I made them some 'Great Depression' potato soup just the way my mother made it for me back in the very early late 1930's when she ran out of $$$, or when I was sick. Chopped up potatoes & onions cooked in water which I didn't drain out...butter, whole milk, hard grated cheese, S&P. They were great fans of this 'Great Depression' soup, but don't understand the history of it. They don't understand what it did to this country. In today's world they are both very close to their forties, & are professional men. GS has his MSW in Social Work, as Mental Health Therapist. Neighborhood boy is now a Doctor of Internal Medicine. So...that's what eating Potato Soup does for you when you are a little child. It can turn you into Professionals in the Medical world. LOL!!! LOL!!! As for myself, I attended Culinary Arts school during College years, & believe it or not, the class spent half a day being taught to make potato soup when there isn't anything else to eat. And, I lived through WW2's food rationing, & the ration books with the stamps from the Government. Mama had her 'Victory Garden' with lots of potatoes growing under the ground. My job was hoeing & weed pulling. If you never had fresh potatoes directly from the ground that were freshly washed & boiled & made into any recipe, you have really missed a beautiful thing. My memories were quickly awakened when you mentioned 'Potato Soup'. Thank you for your thoughts about making this historic soup, and jogging my memories of so many happy things & I am looking forward to watching you making it. Thank you, & stay safe.
Here after watching your sandwich video. I have been on a soup kick lately and I'm so excited to watch this!
I was the one cooking from those books, and even had a child's version of the BH&G cookbook. Fun to see these recipes brought back. I, too, eat soup year round!
Hi,this is Esther from Milwaukee, WI. I watch your program every morning. I love it when you go through your cookbook finds. I just made the potato soup. I added bacon, more salt, pepper and garlic powder. Yum! Definitely keeper. Thank you so much and God Bless
On that potato soup, try adding a bit of nutmeg. It should bring out the more earthier flavor of the potato. For me, just to make it heartier and interesting, I'd add some kind of mushrooms, and garnish with some scallion.
I love and eat soups all year round also. 😋
Instant sub after seeing Nessie floating around in the pot, heh.
potato soup with bacon is awesome my grama would make it and i never knew how thank you
love the fact you halved recipes since its just me to eat it potato cheese with ham or bacon added
We're a big soup house. Will definitely try the Broccoli Ham Soup based on your comments. 😉
i am so glad i found your vlog..i have the full collection of the better homes and garden cookbooks and your vlog has brought me back to using them.
They're some of my absolute favorites!
I had a ridiculous week and weekend. I'm off on Thursday, I'm going to send your book (and a surprise) then. Sorry for the delay, I'm the bad. Love your content, you are a warm, welcoming presence when I'm having a challenging time!
Oh no worries at all! I hope you have some time to rest and recover from a crazy week. ❤
Hi Anna. I just discovered your channel. I like the way you make dishes from days gone by. I have a daughter your age and I find it interesting that you cook dishes popular before birth. The bowls you use to prepare the recipes bring back memories.
Cool wooden spoon, with a smiley face !
Thank you! My friend picked it up at a German Christmas market for me.
Love any recipe, especially the old ones...
I'm so gonna try this. Cooking is my life 😀
Me too Anna - I eat soup year round - always yummy. My favorite is crawfish bisque which isn’t easy to make.
My family has an old potato soup recipe. My great grandmother grew up on it during the Depression. You boil potatoes and onions (I don't like onions, so I use onion powder) until the potatoes are ALMOST tender (until they only need a couple minutes left to be to your liking). Drain all the water out and cover the potatoes in whole milk. Salt and pepper to taste (I use A LOT of pepper). Cube up a stick of butter, and add to the soup. Heat until the soup is hot, the butter is melted, and the potatoes are done cooking. Crunch up saltines into your bowl of soup, and mix it in. That will thicken the soup and add flavor and texture. The recipe has been passed down in our family, and I crave it when it gets cold!
I always use alittle nutmeg in cream sauces.
I’m so happy I found your channel!
So glad you're here! ❤
I love potato/leek/cauliflower, so I will definitely try the potato soup with Swiss cheese, thank you for the recipe! I also saw the recipe for Schnitz und Knepp on the broccoli soup page, which necessitated a trip down the google rabbit hole; so I'll be making that, too!
Glad you took away some recipes to try!
I’ve always enjoyed soups and will definitely have to try these!
wow that brock soup was excelent i ate it 3 times this week thank you i served it over a piece of toast
I am so excited for this soup 🍲 my dear sister 😋❤
When I was little, my grandmother used to make potato soup (no cheese though), probably to use up leftover potatoes from the day before. I think about that soup at least as often as men on tikt0k think about the Roman Empire, but I’ve never made it. Maybe this is my sign!
I was born in 1978! I am the youngest of 6 and we had lots of soups and stews so it would be enough for everyone. I'm still a soup person and have to find this book now.
It really is a great book! Thanks for watching. ❤
Couldn't hear the bird in the background of your video over my own parrot going bonkers in the other room haha!
I love soup! And that apron is so cute!
Thank you!
Your apron is cute! Love your presentations. Will try your recipes this fall.
Thank you! ❤
Loving,the apron,and these recipes, I grew up eating all these😅😅and I still am making them especially in the fall and winter luv it❤❤
Italian wedding soup
Such an adorable apron!
Thank you! ❤
I’m only five minutes into your video but I love that apron I need to have one😊
It’s still available according to Anthropologie’s website, and they also have a matching pot holder!
1978 is now Vintage....wow.
Zuppa Toscana is definitely my fav, but I would try these no problem. Honestly the celery soup sounds good! Lol. The font on the cover of the cookbook reminds me of Cheers.
YES it does look kinda like Cheers!
Nice recipes.. with the third soup, the potato and cheese one...maybe the potatoes could be cooked in a chicken broth? That would add a punch of flavour ..😊
I've got Nessie ladels, too. I adore them. I wonder if some cooking wine would go well in that potato soup. I'd maybe add it with the milk to equal the 2.5 c you needed.
I made the buttermilk corn chowder for New Year's Eve with frozen corn from my father's garden. Delish! Thank you. 😄
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I love your show ❤ you had me the minute I saw that apron 😊
Thank you! ☺ I just couldn't resist that apron when I saw it!
Potato Leek and butternut squash soups. I'm definitely trying that broccoli ham soup!
I have this book and use it often. Try their bread cookbook. It's awesome
Just made the Buttermilk Corn Chowder and we both thought is was a 10 out of 10. Absolutely fabulous. I've ordered myself that cookbook. 😆
Thanks for that feedback. I think I will give it a try as well.
The apron is amazing! 🎃
Thank you! I knew it had to come home with me the moment I saw it. 😂
With the potato soup, maybe if the potatoes were boiled in chicken stock instead of water, it would have brought more flavor? Thank you for yet another wonderful video 🩷
I have a favorite BHG cookbook my mom sent me when I graduated college. 1979. It's chapters are divided by months and recipes with what is in season in those months. Plus in the back basics on meat, poultry, breads. Cakes etc. It is wonderfully laid out with full color photography AND line drawings. It is so special to me because she wrote an inscription in it to me and now she has passed. Thanks Anna.
LOVE the apron! 💗
Thank you! ☺
CUTE APRON! I LOVE SOUP! Okay, I'll calm down, but these all look so tasty. The corn chowder looks the best to me. I love chowders!
I love your enthusiasm!! Thank you! ❤
I love soup in the winter. I gave my daughters a good basic cookbook when they mo ed out on their own. My husband always laughs at my soup making. I try to make small amounts and end up with my largest stock pot.
I hear you. I find it almost impossible to make a small amount of soup. I try to make enough for only a couple of meals but it’s hard.
Here I was thinking the bird was my neighbours car alarm going off 🤣🤣🤦♀️ was thinking how can't they hear that lol
That is the sound of an irritated bluejay. Maybe there's a squirrel sitting on the tree it calls home. I knew a few people like that! 😂
Love that apron!
Amazing!! I'm absolutely loving your channel!!!
Thank you so much!!
Thyme is good in potato cheddar cheese soup!
I’ve made all of those, but people in my family worked for Meredith Corp so all cookbooks (and sewing books) were BHG. I leave the pasta out of the broccoli soup.
That's really cool!
Love your new apron
Thank you! ❤
Thank you so much for your videos they bring me so much comfort :)
I'm so glad you find them comforting. I am a pretty anxious person, and hearing that I can help others with my videos makes me so happy. ☺
Love your apron
Thank you!!
Thank you, the soups look so delicious!
All the soups look good, but will definitely start with the broccoli ham.
Love the apron!
Thank you!
Soup season is year round in my house because thankfully Hubby loves soup. But I have to giggle with your tiny little soup pans. I know you are cutting the recipe in half but I have to get out the "canning pot" to make soup. I make enough to have dinner that night, lunch for hubby the next day and a few quarts in the freezer for days that I have no idea what to cook or time to cook. 🙂
We do "Soup Sunday" from September until March or so. I'm always looking for new yummy soups (or OLD yummy soups ;-), I'm definitely going to try a couple of these! On another note, I made "Praline Squares" out of the Betty Crocker Cooking For Two cookbook the other day. I was shocked at HOW DELICOUS that recipe was!! 🙂
That's a great idea, to plan one day a week to be soup for supper. Soup is so economical.
Soup Sunday! I love it! 😄
re: the potato soup ... cook the potatoes in chicken broth , use a large white onion and some green onions too , add 2 or 3 celery ribs , use evaporated milk and dilute w/more chicken broth and use american cheese or Velveeta ❤❤❤
Just subscribed, even though I can no longer stand long enough to cook! I can still recall when I cooked 3 meals and 3 snacks a day for a family of 6! All from scratch, not because we were poor, but because my ex kept the food budget the same for 6 as it was for 2! Lol
Love soups thanks so much
Glad you enjoyed this one Doris!