Fannie Lynn started out doing a batch of cream of mushroom soup. Mom and I did this last Friday and had enough mushrooms left for one more batch. It filled the kitchen up with a wonderful smell of cooked mushrooms. I love that smell!!!
Then we mixed up a huge batch of potato soup! We got the recipe from Susan Fisher and we all love it! It's a small recipe so we took it X 18! I know ... that's a lot of soup. But between four of us, that's what we wanted. After we mixed it all in a huge container we filled the jars and began to can.
Mom's been itching to make some good clam chowder soup. After doing some research to find a recipe that we can use to can clam chowder, we ended up just picking one out of a cookbook and canned it. First time for everything right?!? I wasn't too sure of the idea. I helped mix but will let them tell me if it is good and tasty. Maybe I'll do some next year?
We took a lunch break with eating mom's delicious 'pig stomach' meal. So yummy. It's sausage, potatoes, roast, seasonings and ???. All baked together. We had the left overs for supper tonight and my family ate every single bite. It's been a long time that I didn't have leftovers to put in the fridge. Thanks mom!!! Your pumpkin pie was delicious too! :)
We got right back to mixing more soups. Cheeseburger Soup! I got this recipe from Anne Crystal and can't wait to serve it for supper on a cold night!
4 lbs. Hamburger
3 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. pepper
1 1/2 cup chopped onions
3 cup diced celery
3 cup diced carrots
9 cups diced potatoes
2 - 48 oz. cans chicken broth
Brown the hamburger with some butter. Cook your vegetables just a bit and toss everything together except your broth. Add some fresh garlic too if you want! Fill your jars with your burger and vegetable mix and then pour your broth to fill up your jar. Cold pack for 3 hours. Yield: 9 Qts.
When serving ... heat a jar of soup and add milk, flour and cheese!
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Chili Soup. Another recipe from Annie! Thanks!!!
10 lb. Hamburger
6 Qts. Tomato Juice
2 cans stewed tomatoes, chopped
2 gallons pork & beans
3 jars canned pickle relish (I used two small jars of homemade pickle relish jam.)
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp. chili powder
3 pks. chili seasoning
Salt
Red pepper
Brown the hamburger and mix it with all the other ingredients. Fill your jars and cold pack for 3 hours. Easy and so yummy! Yield: 20 Qts. & 4 pints
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All these soups were fairly easy but time consuming. Chopping, cooking, filling and canning! Thanks so much ladies for working together to get the job done well! I had to leave mom with the mess to clean up again so I could be home for when the school children came home. :/
Thanks again mom for letting us use your stoves and nice canning kitchen!!! Love you!
