Easy Soup Recipes For Country Cooking Enthusiasts

The custom in country kitchens is to make a meal with easy soup recipes, such as our Ham and Bean Soup, in large quantity, serve part of it and then freeze the surplus. This is an application of a farm kitchen rule: Cook once for twice whenever possible!

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Big kettles of homemade soups bubbling on the kitchen stove; this is a familiar winter scene on our ranch. Country soups are substantial enough to serve as the main dish in our supper menus and the leftovers provide lunch the next day.

Homemade soups easily answer the common question, "What's for dinner?"

How to Make Soup Without Excess Grease

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Have you ever wondered how to make soup without excess grease? Cook meat and bones one day until the meat is tender; then set the covered kettle in a very cold place. It's easy to lift off the congealed fat the next day, then heat for serving.

You can chill the meat and broth separately overnight in the refrigerator. To fix the soup, cut the meat in small pieces and add it and the prepared vegetables to the broth (from which the congealed fat has been skimmed),
discarding the bones. Simmer gently until vegetables are tender.

Always check the seasoning before ladling the steaming soup into bowls. Then inform your family and guests: soup's on!

Healthy Soup Recipes
Start With A Savory Broth

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Broth is what enriches a soup. It is the magic seasoning in many meatless vegetable soups and when prepared properly, your easy soup recipe becomes a healthy soup recipe as well!

Keep broth you have prepared in the freezer and bring some out when you're in a soup making mood. Or buy cans from the supermarket.

Once you get the habit of substituting broth for part of the water in vegetable soups, you'll stick to it. And you'll get out the soup kettle more often!