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How Much Did Your Mother Cook With Soup?

ECBG — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:36:13 GMT

Campbells soups have fed America! All the roasts, gravies, and dishes like chicken pot pie that used cream of chicken soup. Their chicken noodle fed countless sick children as well as all the soup everyone has paired with a sandwich for a meal.

We had some delicious roasts and meat loaf with gravy made with mushroom soup and an awesome chicken pot pie with homemade crust made with oil that is lighter than air.

For years I didn't add any extra salt (I rarely salt anyway).

Today, we grill mostly.

Re: How Much Did Your Mother Cook With Soup?

bmorechick — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:43:36 GMT

lol...we are Polish/German. Czarnina (pronounced chodd-nina) was a soup we ate constantly. It was made with duck's blood and homemade egg noodles. Beef soup was another one, chicken soup, string bean soup, lima bean soup...omg YES soup for you!!! NEVER out of the can. We had a huge pot of soup at least once a week, which meant you ate for two days on it. I make the beef soup and chicken soup, but not czarnina - can't get a fresh quart of duck's blood anymore and you had to cook with it before it coagulated. Memories...

Re: How Much Did Your Mother Cook With Soup?

Peaches McPhee — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:52:57 GMT

Mom did it sometimes. I do it now and then. I actually have a cookbook that provides receipes using soup.

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athenian — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:57:16 GMT

I had Campbell's soup almost everyday for lunch, with a sandwich and apple, but Mother didn't cook many casseroles. She was a meat, two veg and bread type, and fruit for dessert except for Sundays. My dad's only main dish, if Mother wasn't cooking, which was very rare, was a casserole with chicken and mushroom soup. We didn't like it too much. Poor Dad.

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chickenbutt — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:58:06 GMT

Not at all. But, to be fair, I had to start doing the cooking when I was 6. Since I didn't have that as an example, it never would have occurred to me to cook using canned soup as an 'ingredient'. I learned to cook by trial and error, so I guess I was fortunate (I can say, in retrospect) to actually learn to cook so young.

I cannot see a scenario which would have me cooking with canned soup. YMMV and that's totally cool.

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jaxs mom — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:05:17 GMT

Not a lot. My mom made chicken and dumplings from scratch. We did have Campbells chicken noodle for lunch or snacks on occasion. My aunt made that disgusting green bean casserole. If my mom made any of those dishes that called for canned soup concentrate I must have blocked them out like so many of her other meals. I don't cook like that myself. I make stock, sauces and gravy's from scratch.

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GCR18 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:19:31 GMT

My mother never cooked with soup. My father was a meat and potatoes eater, not into gravies or sauces.

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CelticCrafter — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:35:17 GMT

My mother never used it as an ingredient.

On the rare occasion that we did have soup for dinner, it was always homemade.

We weren't casserole eaters, my dad was meat and potatoes, so she never made those.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:47:03 GMT

The only thing I remember mom cooking with soup was sloppy Joes. She discovered this quick and easy recipe where she browned a pound of ground beef, added a can of chicken gumbo soup and maybe some other stuff like onions, and served it on buns. Seems like we had this every other night for awhile.

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ChynnaBlue — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:47:27 GMT

Not very often. She made soup, but didn't cook with soup much. I've never really been a fan of anything made with "cream of (anything)" soups. I suspect my grandparents cooked with soup more often. In my mind, I always associate cream of (anything) soups with mid-century, like strange gelatin salads.

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ECBG — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:52:55 GMT

@Peaches McPhee wrote:
Mom did it sometimes. I do it now and then. I actually have a cookbook that provides receipes using soup.

@Peaches McPheeThose can be SO good!

Remember Green Bean casserole? Seems it was a national favorite!

I could always taste the can in the green beans, so I used frozen French cut green beans! It was incredibly better!

I think I made it ONCE maybe! (LOL)

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dex — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:50:45 GMT

My mom didn't use canned soup because it was too expensive.I always wished for it do when I got married we had it often but realized that it is so salty and doesn't have much in it.I make my own soups now and as a matter of fact I have a turkey carcass boiling in the stock pot right now,

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chickenbutt — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:57:31 GMT

@ECBG wrote:

Remember Green Bean casserole? Seems it was a national favorite!

I could always taste the can in the green beans, so I used frozen French cut green beans! It was incredibly better!

I think I made it ONCE maybe! (LOL)

Oh gag! I had totally forgotten, but decades ago I had to make this at somebody's request. I didn't want to do it, but I did.

Good idea you had to at least used frozen green beans!

Re: How Much Did Your Mother Cook With Soup?

ECBG — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:02:43 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
@ECBG wrote:

Remember Green Bean casserole? Seems it was a national favorite!

I could always taste the can in the green beans, so I used frozen French cut green beans! It was incredibly better!

I think I made it ONCE maybe! (LOL)

Oh gag! I had totally forgotten, but decades ago I had to make this at somebody's request. I didn't want to do it, but I did.

Good idea you had to at least used frozen green beans!

@chickenbuttThanks, generally, I don't like canned foods.

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QVCkitty1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:17:40 GMT

My mom didn't use a lot of soup, however she did use Campbell's golden mushroom soup in gravy and sauces. I don't even know if they still make it.

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KentuckyWoman — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:24:26 GMT

My mother was an excellent cook. She and daddy raised their own vegetable garden so she always cooked from fresh or home canned or frozen. She cooked from scratch too. On rare, and I mean rare occasions she would use a can of cream soup of some kind to cook.

I know most people gasp in horror these days when you say you use canned soups to prepare certain dishes. Right this very minute, I am baking the infamous No Peek Chicken with Uncle Ben's Wild Rice. It includes a can of cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soup. I don't do it all the time, but I get tired of grilled meat. What we don't eat, I will freeze with my Food Saver. In a month or so I will pull it out and serve it up again.

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KentuckyWoman — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:25:37 GMT

@athenian wrote:
I had Campbell's soup almost everyday for lunch, with a sandwich and apple, but Mother didn't cook many casseroles. She was a meat, two veg and bread type, and fruit for dessert except for Sundays. My dad's only main dish, if Mother wasn't cooking, which was very rare, was a casserole with chicken and mushroom soup. We didn't like it too much. Poor Dad.

I LOVE Campbell's tomato bisque soup. I eat it two or three times a week in the fall and winter.

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luvdoodles — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:29:29 GMT

The only canned soup we had was Campbells Tomato when we had grilled cheese sandwiches. It was usually on a Sunday night. She always made homemade chicken noodle soup. Back then I didn't even like it, it always hurt my throat probably because of the acidity. Homemade soups are much better, I always have some in the fridge or freezer.

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HonnyBrown — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:50:01 GMT

Mom never cooked with canned soups when we were kids. Imagine my surprise when I came home for Christmas one year, and she used Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup to make the gravy!

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Daysdee — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:57:02 GMT

I don't think my Mom used it much; maybe a little. I use canned soup for many items I make in the slow cooker and also sometimes add a can to my homemade soups. I also have cookbooks using soup --both are Campbell's cookbooks I have had and used for many years.