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Edna's Scalloped Potato Soup
Here's a hearty soup that's delicious and easy on the pocketbook.
Nothing's more pleasing in chilly weather than a bowl of hot soup, so get ready to serve seconds and even thirds of this creamy dish. It's a snap to prepare, and everyone in your family is sure to love it.
Ingredients
| 2 tablespoons butter | 1 tablespoon vegetable bouillon |
| 1 large onion, diced | ¼ cup flour |
| 2 garlic cloves, minced | 1 quart lowfat milk |
| 2 celery stalks, diced | 1 can evaporated milk |
| 2 carrots, diced | ½ pound Cheddar cheese, chopped |
| 4 large potatoes, diced | Salt and pepper to taste |
| ½ to 1 pound pre-cooked ham, sliced thin | ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped |
| ½ cup water |
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Preparation
1. In a Dutch oven melt butter over medium-low heat then add vegetables and sauté.
2. Add ham and cook for about 5 minutes.
3. Add water and bouillon. Cover to steam until vegetables are fork tender.
4. Stir in flour, then slowly stir in both types of milk. Allow mixture to get hot, but don’t boil.
5. Stir in cheese and let melt while soup thickens.
6. Stir in salt, pepper and parsley. Serve warm.
Serves 6.
Nutritional Information: Calories: 630; Fat, 26 g; Cholestrol, 100 mg; Sodium, 1140 mg; Total Carbohydrates, 68g; Dietary Fiber, 7g; Sugars, 20g; Protein, 31g.
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I, too, used the condensed milk in this potato soup as have many others I see and didn't think much about it until I tasted it. My family ate it and we didn't think it all that bad actually but I wanted to check online to see if this was the right milk....I see it should have been evaporated! I do think it will be much better with the evaporated but it was a new taste experience!
The potato soup recipe would be great if you left out the ham. Christians need to think more about compassion, and killing animals for food is not kind or compassionate. One vegetarian saves 100 animals and birds a year.
Just because the Bible says that you can eat them, doesn't mean that it is right. The awareness level of most Christians is very low when it comes to the treatment of factory farm animals that can't speak for themselves. If you are truly compassionate, you will research the ways in which the "food animals" are treated prior to and during their slaughter. If you cared enough to make an effort to inform yourselves, you could never eat dead flesh, as you are contributing to the cruelty and pain that they suffer from birth to death.
"Do unto others" doesn't apply just to people, but to all living things. Can you imagine Jesus trying to kill a cow, then hoisting it up on a hook and skinning it while it’s still alive? That happens all the time. You are eating suffering, fear and pain. Please take the time to inform yourselves.
60,000 birds and animals die EVERY HOUR -EVERY HOUR!!- so that human beings can stuff their stomachs with the flesh of dead creatures, when there are hundreds of other foods that can be eaten – foods that don’t cause animals to be tortured and slaughtered in those incredible numbers.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." -- Thomas Edison
“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” -- Pythagoras (6th century BC)
Christians, you pray for peace, and yet you continue to contribute to killing.
this is really a nice recipe for the appetite for new year eve celebration. I can cook it in few minutes and I hope everybody like this. It would make my new year celebration actually happy new year . I am really excited to celebrate new year with all the friends and family. And more than that my mothers birthday also comes on 1st Jan.
So looking forward..
:)
Made Edna's Scalloped Potato Soup for church's annual Soup & Salad lunch following the hanging of the greens this morning. It was a hit. My Dutch Oven was scraped clean and several people asked for "my" recipe. Thank you Ann. Merry Christmas.
PS It is most definitely evaporated milk. You can knock off a few calories by using skimmed evaporated without losing the flavor.
I have part of a receipe for Oven-Baked Brisket. I have preparation thru part of number 4. Is their some way you could e-mail me the rest of the receipe.. Sorry I lost the rest of it. It was aroun 6/28/2009 Thanks so much
Sam Williams
Recipe for Edna's Scalloped Potato Soup recipe in October magazine has "Condensed Milk" and it should be evaporated milk. Made it following directions-tasted weird--so sweet.
Love the magazine. Judith
Company was coming and your soup sounded so good. I was so disappointed when I tasted it. It is much too sweet. I thought surely the recipe would be tested before being published.
Due to your error in the recipe for Edna's soup,
I ruined an entire pot of soup.
I emailed and asked if it was an error stating condensed milk and should it have been evaporated and no one answered my email so I decided to try it.
I poured it down the garbage disposal and was very upset....
You should have a taste kitchen to test these recipes to alleviate such errors.
I decided condensed milk did not sound like a good idea, so I just checked online. Thanks for the corrected version.
i found the recipe in the magazine. never thought to look online...made it with the condensed milk...and my family loved it!! hahaha! next time i will make it with evaporated milk, but we thought it was great!! im really surprised that some thought it was bad enough to just throw it all away. thanks for the recipe!
the recipe in the magazine called for condensed milk. i am so glad that I looked up the recipe online. I would have ruined a wonderful batch of vegetables. thank goodness, I googled condensed milk first to see that sweetened condensed is the only product with that name. Then I looked on your website. Thank you for having the correct name here. Soup smells delicious!
Tries this recipe thought condensed milk was odd but used it anyway. Because I had a previous appoitment I didn't try it and gave some to a neighbor who was ill. She said it was horrible and I was embrassed. I should have listen to my instincts and used evaporated. I am on an extremely tight budget and cannot afford to waste food and/or money which was what I had to do. It will be a very long time before I try a recipe from Guideposts again. Your mistake has caused many people a lot of money. I thought everything especially a recipe would have been edited before printing
I am going to make this soup. After reading the recipe I was confused about one of the ingredients. It calls for 1 can of condensed milk. Now being a pretty good cook, I know that condensed milk is sweet and thick and usually used in dessert recipes. I was sure it was a typo error so I found the recipe here and it is an error. Knew it was supposed to be evaporated milk. Gee, if anyone follows the recipe in Guideposts they will have a very sweet soup.
The recipe calls for 1 can of condensed milk. I could only find sweetened condensed milk so I substituted evaporated milk. It came out a little runny....not sure if this is because I used the evaporated milk or if I needed more potatoes. Where do you find condensed milk? Is there a recommended brand or store?
Thank god, that even though I bought condensed milk at the market , I just knew that it probably meant evaporated milk, so that is what I added. The soup is delicious ; I made half of the recipe since there are just 2 of us to feed. Does anyone happen to know if this is freezable?
I made it tonight and it called for a can of condensed milk. I thought it a little odd, but because it had such a good report, I thought I would try it.
Well, needless to say. it was very sweet.
I thought that possibly the recipe should have said evaporated milk. Sure enough, the recipe on line calls for the evaporated.
I hope it can be corrected so others will not make the mistake I did.
I believe with the evaporated milk, it would be very delicious. My guest even ate it as it was, but it was a little too sweet for me, LOL!
I also tried "Edna's Scalloped Potato Soup" and wondered why condensed milk was specified. It was too sweet, but I will try it with evaporated milk - and I'm sure it will be much better!
I know mistakes can be made but you really must be careful. Throwing away an entire pot of food on our tight budget was really upsetting. I won't be trying any new recipes for a while!
I made a double batch of this recipe today to serve guests tomorrow and I can't help but wonder about using condensed milk -- the soup has a sweet taste. Should the recipe actually have called for evaporated milk instead? Also, once I added the cheese and it began melting, the soup kind of curdled and doesn't have a rich, smooth texture, which makes me wonder if the soup temperature was too hot when I added the cheese, although it wasn't boiling. I'll see what the guests think tomorrow, but so far I'm not impressed with today's efforts.
I wish I had gone online before I made the soup for my Circle meeting at Church yesterday. I couldn't imagine why condensed milk was in it, but the article said everyone loved it so I did as the recipe stated. It was awful and a lot of time and money went into it besides my embarassment by serving it to a group of hungry ladies.
Guideposts email is not correct. What is the correct size can of evaporated milk in Edna's scalloped potato soup?
Sooo glad I picked up on the mistake before I made this soup. My family LOVED it! I've already given the recipe to several family members and friends. I did use chicken instead of vegetable boullion because that's what was available to me already. It turned out just fine!
Yes, the evaporated milk does sound good. I am glad I had not tried it before the correction was made. Now I will try it. It sound very good and healthy.
I made the soup from the original recipe and ended up at Applebees for dinner. It was quite the conversation piece at school the next day. Yesterday I tried it with evaporated milk and was told it was a keeper. It has now been added to my recipe file. It was worth a second chance.
I just finished tasting this awful soup after preparing it with " condensed" milk. I questioned this when preparing the ingredients but I'm not a cook. This was an expensive mistake (not to mention my time wasted) and ironically it's supposed to be inexpensive. Can't help but be disappointed since I'm still hungry. :(
Just sat down with my soup after preparing it . Couldn't wait to try this after working all day. YUCK! I wondered why condensed milk would be used and now I see it was an error. This was an expensive mistake. I'll have to throw this out!!! Now I see why I don't cook...
I felt the same as Sarah Hendrix that the soup was inedible, which was a result of the 'condensed milk' as indicated in your October '11 issue. We had to toss out the soup. This error in the recipe was costly. With this down economy and the high cost of groceries it would be nice if someone would verify the contents of recipes before publishing.
Alas, we're only human, Betty, and mistakes will sometimes occur, despite our best efforts and intentions. We do sincerely apologize for the mistake, though, and the trouble and expense it's caused some of our readers. Hang in there with us; we're always striving to improve.
I am so glad someone changed the one ingrediant that ruined a very large pot of soup. The printed receipe in Oct '11 Guidepost has 1 can of condensed milk instead of the evaporated milk. My husband (who does no cook) was asking why do you want sweet condensed milk in soup? I assured him that receipes that are printed in magazines are usually test in a kitchen first. I was having my own doubts, but as the "cook" in the family I am open to different tasting dishes. This was beyond different and ineatable.
Our sincere apologies. The online version is corrected to say evaporated (not condensed) milk for this recipe. We're so sorry for the mixup. -- The Editors
It says condensed milk in the magazine. I'm glad I pulled it up here online. I hope Guideposts makes a correction.
We extend our sincere apologies. You're right -- it says condensed milk in the printed version of the magazine. It was changed online once we found out it should have been evaporated milk instead. We're so sorry for the mixup. -- The Editors
Please tell me it's NOT "condensed" milk. Surely you meant "evaporated".
Yep, the print magazine says condensed ... I had half the can in before saying to myself "this can't be right!" i've already invested all the other ingredients so our soup will just have to be a little sweet. Added more reg milk to try and salvage it ... The other thing I didnt pick up on was that the potatoes were supposed to be added to the traditional sautee veggies like onion, celery and garlic ... so mine got added late which means simmering longer to try and get them tender.
Well, this was slightly sweet because 1/2 can of sweetened evaporated milk made its way into our pot ... but my kids (11 and 8) both thought this was the BEST SOUP EVER, and so did my 70 year old dad ... so, for us, even with the mistake, it was wonderful. Thanks, Guideposts!!
Unless something was changed after you ladies read the article and recipe, it says 1 can evaporated milk, not condensed.
the soup sounds delicious. I am wondering about the one ingredient, the condensed milk which is very sweet?? thanks
Are you sure this is supposed to be (sweetened) condensed milk? We made it and it was just too sweet for potato soup. Perhaps it should be evaporated milk?
I was wondering the same thing! I think I'll try with evaporated milk
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