What kind of soup is your favorite? Would you try one of these? Let me know in the comments!

@SuzieQ-lw2kp

10 ай бұрын

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 💛

@sebeckley

10 ай бұрын

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.

@brendamarker7351

10 ай бұрын

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.😊

@janetnelson4729

10 ай бұрын

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.

@marionpeebles3836

10 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@Standinthegap4ever

22 сағат бұрын

How wonderful to have her notes in there too!

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!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤

@forkswacarnivore7531

9 ай бұрын

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

@madcitywendy

2 ай бұрын

I agree!

Can I just say thanks for making these in small portions. I'm the only one in my house that will eat soup

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Smaller amounts just work best for my household.

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.

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!!!! ❤❤❤

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words! I love that you're revisiting your vintage cookbooks. ☺

That potato soup would easily make a great loaded potato soup and give it that extra boost you're looking for.

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.

Crab bisque (1953 better homes garden cookbook).

Love the half recipe I'm 83

SO SO GLAD I FOUND YOU!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

So glad to have you here! ❤

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.

@dianaarmitage512

10 ай бұрын

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!!👍

@Ohwhale79

10 ай бұрын

Right?!?! Totally great! I just found her recently too and I'm having so much fun!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Your comment means a lot! I want everyone to feel comfortable trying the recipes I share no matter their skill level.

@trishfitzpatrick2066

10 ай бұрын

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).

@wmluna381

6 ай бұрын

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.

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!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺

Making SOUP TONIGHT! Mine is lentils n kale!!!!!!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Sounds fantastic!

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!

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

So good!

@tina6277

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

I like that bird call in the background. Reminds me of growing up in NJ. My grandmother even had a bird feeder.

I'm so excited for soup season! The potato and cheese soup with some added bacon sounds so yummy.

@ethelnewberry151

10 ай бұрын

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 really enjoy your voice and humor!

NUTMEG!!!! Townsends has entered the building.....

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.

Cool wooden spoon, with a smiley face !

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! My friend picked it up at a German Christmas market for me.

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!

Doing my best with what I got is how we all should live. Great video!! Love the birds. 😊

I love soup! And that apron is so cute!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

It really is a great book! Thanks for watching. ❤

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!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Glad you took away some recipes to try!

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.

@annseabolt6645

10 ай бұрын

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.

Potato Leek and butternut squash soups. I'm definitely trying that broccoli ham soup!

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!!

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. 😆

@auburnkim1989

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for that feedback. I think I will give it a try as well.

We grew up with all kinds of soup that were always use up the left overs soups.

I liked the cookbook my mom had that had everything separated by dividers with the names of the sections on it and had the list of recipes at the front of the chapter so much easier to use.

@Ohwhale79

10 ай бұрын

It seems like a lot of older cookbooks used to have that, I miss it!

That bird has OPINIONS. :)

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

SO MANY OPINIONS. 😂

I love soup so, so much! So please keep these coming!

Lol. You can really hear that tweety bird lol. Cute apron, too! Xxox

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!! 🙂

@hymmj147

10 ай бұрын

That's a great idea, to plan one day a week to be soup for supper. Soup is so economical.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Soup Sunday! I love it! 😄

I love split pea soup. Potato soup next These are interesting.

Wow, this book brings back memories! There are some great recipes in here. Thanks for sharing.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! ❤

My favorite is hamburger soup with cabbage. I grew up near St. Louis and had never heard of hamburger soup until I moved to Northwest Indiana when I got married 46 years ago. Both my ex husband and my current husband grew up on it. The soups you made looked delicious!

@pamelak7924

10 ай бұрын

I make a cabbage soup with chunks of pot roast cooked in the crock pot the night before

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 ..😊

Anna this video was great. So clear and fun. You’re so thoughtful going through how to find the recipe. You really think of everything! Love from the uk 🇬🇧

Apple fennel soup is a new family winter favorite. It also has butternut squash, fresh ginger, onion and chicken broth. Really enjoy your cooking the books Anna!! Looking forward to more quirky old fashioned recipes.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤

I love and eat soups all year round also. 😋

Thank you so much for your videos they bring me so much comfort :)

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

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. ☺

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 fact you halved recipes since its just me to eat it potato cheese with ham or bacon added

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

YES it does look kinda like Cheers!

I'm a year round soup person too. I also use my crock pot year round. They are both so handy.

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'm so gonna try this. Cooking is my life 😀

potato soup with bacon is awesome my grama would make it and i never knew how thank you

The broccoli soup was definitely intriguing. I love corn chowder. I grew up in Indiana, and never had it until I moved to New England. I always start by frying bacon, remove when crispy, add the onion and potato, fry them a bit in the bacon fat, then add the corn, fried bacon and the broth. Then the milk. I use potato flakes to thicken. Gotta be careful not to add too much, but it doesn't detract from the flavor. I think soups taste better if you cook them until the potatoes lose their edges. They also naturally start to thicken the soup, too. I always add potato flakes, butter, and way more pepper or hot sauce to my bowl. I'm weird though. The kids just gobble it down straight. Well, I call them kids, but at 23 and 21, they are freeloaders right now. Soups are so budget friendly, until they move out, Mama's making soup!

Love any recipe, especially the old ones...

Great soups, Anna! LOVE the apron! It is adorable!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺

Here after watching your sandwich video. I have been on a soup kick lately and I'm so excited to watch this!

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.

My favourite soup is Cauliflower Soup.

That's wonderful ❤❤

Instant sub after seeing Nessie floating around in the pot, heh.

Thank you so much for scraping bowls and jugs out properly! I get twitchy when cooks leave all the goodness behind. I've essentially binge watched you all weekend by the way. I found you on Thursday I think and here I still am. I love it!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Your comment made me giggle...I have sooo many spatulas in different shapes and sizes just so I can get the last bits of things out of jars and cans. Sometimes I cut the footage where I scrape out the containers, but rest assured that every can, jar, and bowl is cleaned out! 😂

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...

Such a cute 🥰 apron!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love your videos. Always learning something new 😁

I love potato bacon soup with cheese on top. I wouldn't mind trying the ham and broccoli though. Have a great day

I love soup all year around also. It is especially nice and cozy in the colder months. A creamy chicken and rice is my favorite. There used to be a cafe that had a crab and corn soup but is no longer available. The broccoli soup looked very fancy!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Oooh creamy chicken and rice! I haven't had that in a long time. So good.

Yum ! Love the aoup recipes. Corn chowder can never have to much bacon ! And omg! I seriously laughed out loud with that awesome smiling spoon !!!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!! The spoon is one of my favorite kitchen items. A friend found it in Germany for me! 😀

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.

Cool apron! Love those pumpkins. I was surprised about your reaction to the broccoli ham soup. It didn't look very appetizing once the tomatoes went in. But I am going to try it based on your review, since I like all the ingredients.🍁

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

I know it seems like an unusual combo, but it was so tasty!

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. 👍😋👍😋

We're a big soup house. Will definitely try the Broccoli Ham Soup based on your comments. 😉

I love soup. I make it once a week almost all year long. It’s a great way to use up odds and ends and very economical. We really love beef minestrone with pesto and we just recently tried the creamy Cajun chicken pasta soup. It’s a new favorite with my kids!

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

That's really cool!

A friend of mine had a cookbook that was at that time was over 100 years old. Many of the submissions were made by first ladies. There was one from Martha Washington submitted by another first lady. Dolly Madison was in it a couple times . I tried a recipe called mock turtle soup. It wasn't for me plus it called for a wine and I used cooking wine big mistake. It called for hard boiled eggs the yoke made the broth off putting for me plus it was pretty salty. Had I knew then what I know now it probably would have been better. It also had sick room recipes like beef tea, cough syrup, mustard plaster ect also cleaning suplies and other house hold needs, and laundry tips. It was an interesting read.

17.7k subscribers already! Wow, congratulations Anna ❤

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Couldn't hear the bird in the background of your video over my own parrot going bonkers in the other room haha!

I’m so happy I found your channel!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

So glad you're here! ❤

wow that brock soup was excelent i ate it 3 times this week thank you i served it over a piece of toast

Soups are not my favorite meal but I definitely want to try Broccoli Ham Soup. Thanks for sharing!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Oh I hope you like it! Definitely different, but very delicious.

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.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

They're some of my absolute favorites!

I am so excited for this soup 🍲 my dear sister 😋❤

My mom had many of your bookbooks including this one. I remember her trying these recipes. Great memories. Thank you.

I own that cookbook. It was one of the ones my mom gave me when I started cooking. Still have all the 70's Betty Crocker cookbooks and my Joy of cooking from the 60's that was my mom's.

Wish I had that cookbook when my hubs and I were first married in the 70's. For whatever reason, my soups always came out very bland. It took a few years, but can now make a pretty tasty cup of soup.

I love soup all year long. I really could not tell you my favorite because I make all kinds. I recently made a vegetable soup with what needed to be used in the fridge.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Soups really are such a great way to use up ingredients!

I have the Nessie ladle! I also have the mama Nessie that has the strainer holes--I wish it was the size of the baby Nessie ☺️

I’ve always enjoyed soups and will definitely have to try these!

Love your KZread channel love 🍲 soups too happy Sunday 💖🌹💖🌹💖🌹 i love creamy soups actually

I’m only five minutes into your video but I love that apron I need to have one😊

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

It’s still available according to Anthropologie’s website, and they also have a matching pot holder!

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. :-)

Your apron is cute! Love your presentations. Will try your recipes this fall.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤

Such an adorable apron!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤

I have this book and use it often. Try their bread cookbook. It's awesome

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

Mmm…the corn chowder sounds so good! I’m making a very easy chicken enchilada soup as I’m watching this, it’s a recipe where you throw all the ingredients into the pot and simmer for an hour or so then add cheese and it’s done.

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

I love chicken enchilada soup! 😋

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!

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

Oh no worries at all! I hope you have some time to rest and recover from a crazy week. ❤

"Sometimes I start cooking thinking I have something when I really don't" - Yesterday I made a roasted tomato soup and realised I forgot to buy some Worcestershire sauce (not something I usually keep) for the recipe, so I used some barbecue sauce instead, since I vaguely recalled worcester is an ingredient in that.

Here I was thinking the bird was my neighbours car alarm going off 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️ was thinking how can't they hear that lol

Yay for soup weather! They all looked so good and easy.