Product Description

Maybe chicken soup doesn't cure the common cold, but it sure satisfies, even when you're not fighting the sniffles. This treasury of 1,000 recipes for soups, chowders, chilies & bisques is the ultimate collection of comfort food recipes. Country Beef Vegetable Soup, Crab Bisque, Hungarian Goulash Soup, Asparagus and Cheese Chowder, French Onion Soup, Chicago-Style Chili and Creamy Roasted Garlic Soup are among the recipes that will warm you inside and out.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34207 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 544 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780762109111
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Customer Reviews

Simple ingredients, elegant results
If you are a soup lover, this is the book for you. Simple to follow instructions and, generally, easily obtained ingredients. Every recipe I've tried has been excellent, and it includes a wide variety. This is not a "gourmet cookbook" but the results look great when served and won't take all day for you to make them. Only improvement would be if it was bound so it could lie flat.

Fantastic collection of Soup Recipes!
After reading the reviews here on Amazon I decided to seek out this book. I very much enjoy a good bowl of soup and I had high hopes that this cookbook would expand my horizons in home-made soup making without breaking the bank or sending me to an exotic foods market. This book has absolutely met my expectations.

The cover states that there are over 900 recipes contained within. This is not just soup recipes, but it also includes recipes for side dishes such as breads and salads. The collection in this section is not huge but there are a lot of good ideas in there.

The chapters break up the book into several logical sections: Stocks/Broths, Cold Soup, Chicken and Turkey, Meat, Chilies, Fish/Seafood, Chowder and Cheese, Vegetable, Beans/Lentils, Noodles/Rice/Barley, and of course the side dishes. There are some overlaps amongst the chapters, but this is to be expected.

Each recipe is short, to the point and simple. Most recipes to not require things that would not normally be in the house, though a few have such fun ingredients as venison and rabbit, which might require a little more effort to obtain. The directions are clear and leave nothing to the imagination.

So, how do the recipes turn out when followed? Every soup I have tried from this book has been a big hit with my family, to the point that I am asked to make double pots of soup so that my wife does not need to cook for a couple of days.

Soup is the ultimate winter-time comfort food. Homemade soup is better tasting and better for you than the canned variety, and with this book you can find recipes to make your favorite soup with minimal fuss and effort. If you are at all interested in making good soups and you buy only one book on the subject, consider making that one book this one.

Great variety of recipes
This is certainly a comprehensive book on soups. I am yet to try any of the recipes at the time of this review, however, I could not help notice that if you are not totally familiar with American cooking ingredients, you may find yourself somewhat lost at times. Here's an example, "cannned chicken" along with a few other ingredients, but in saying this I am more than prepared to learn about them. Unfortunately, this book does not have a glossary section, although it does have a brief conversion section on the very back page (with the most common conversions). I have tried googling for subsitutes for these items but have been unable to find any substitutes. So there are possibly some recipes I may never get to try due to this, which is a shame.

This book also mixes both imperial and metric measurements on some of it recipes, which is confusing to say the least.

It certainly does have a wide variety of soups, even quick 30 minute soups (although, these do utilise canned soups to quicken the cooking time). I am impressed with the inclusion of recipes for larger quantities ie; serves 10 or more. These are particular good for dinner parties.

Even though, I feel this book would benefit from an informative glossary section explaning food substitues for non American buyers, I would certainly NOT AVOID BUYING THIS BOOK due to this. I guess this is a common problem in reality when purchasing books from other countries, if only the publishers could see this and make the books more universal (now wouldn't that be nice).