Tomato Soup

16 years ago

Here's the recipe from the 4 B's Restuarant. (I just missed one B). This is a restuarant we visited in Missoula, MT a few years back. It is the BEST! I all ways double the recipe, cause the 2 of us fight over it!

Plus it is super easy!

Kathy G in MI

Old Fashioned Cream of Tomato Soup

from The 4B's Restuarant

(yeilds 1/2 gallon)

32 oz. canned diced tomatoes

9 oz chicken broth (undiluted)

1 oz butter

2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon chopped onion

A pinch of baking soda

2 cups cream

1. Mix tomatoes, chicken broth, butter, sugar, onions and soda. Simmer 1 hour.

2. Heat cream in double boiler.

3. Add cream to hot tomato mixture.

4. Ready to serve and enjoy....it's delicious.

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pattico_gw
16 years ago
Thank you...I love Tomato Soup...at least Cambells...I've been eating it all my life. With ~Crumbled~ crackers...lol.

I'll give this recipe a try...before soup weather is gone.

thank you..

patti
grammahony
16 years ago
Thank you Kathy. It sounds so good. I'm going to make some today too, because it's cold and rainy. Perfect soup weather.
Leslie
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Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
16 years ago
My Favorite Tomato Soup is La Madelines Tomato Basil Soup, so I did a search and found it.

La Madelines Tomato Basil Soup
Ingredients
4 cups fresh tomatoes, cored, peeled, and chopped(8-10) or canned whole tomatoes, crushed
4 cups tomato juice(or part vegetable or part chicken stock)
12-14 basil leaves, washed fresh
1 cup heavy cream
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1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
lemon juice (optional)
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I knew it had cream in it, I didn't realize it had that much basil. But, is delicious.

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hayjud_mn
16 years ago
Kathy,
That sounds wonderful and DH and I really enjoy tomato soup. Our favorite is Progresso's Hearty Tomato.

I have all the ingredients so I'm going to make it today. The canned tomatoes I have are those fire roasted ones so that should make it extra yummy.

Thank you for sharing that recipe, and it is so simple.
socks
16 years ago
Both recipes sound wonderful. I have one where you roast the canned tomatos in the oven before making the soup. That's a good one too.

Thanks.
glenda_al
16 years ago
Wish I liked tomato soup. Never have, never will!
nodakgal
16 years ago
DH loves homemade tomato soup. I usually make it with tomatoes, baking soda, Lawrey's seasoned salt, S&P, and cream. Going to try this one next time, thanks for posting it!

Glenda, I can't eat it either! LOL In fact I hate all cooked tomatoes!
kathyg_in_mi
Original Author
16 years ago
Time to add the cream to my soup! It smells so good.
Kathy G in MI
kathyg_in_mi
Original Author
16 years ago
Do you think I can heat it up in the microwave? Hope so.
Kathy G in MI
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
16 years ago
Can I ask...why the baking soda? What does that do?

Gayle
hayjud_mn
16 years ago
Gayle,
I was wondering the same thing.
My guess is, it might be to cut the acidity of the tomatoes.
kathyg_in_mi
Original Author
16 years ago
I don't know why the baking soda. I didn't invent the recipe, just make it to eat. Anyone know the reason? It must be a chemical thing.
And yep, heating the cream in the microwave worked!
Kathy G in MI
nodakgal
16 years ago
I don't know why you couldn't heat it up in the microwave, just becareful not to over do it and curdle it.
Yep, Hayjud is right (at least IMO) on the baking soda.
Jodi_SoCal
16 years ago
Hey, where's the grilled cheese sandwich? :-)

I can't enjoy tomato soup with grilled cheese (and visa versa). Anyone else like that?

Jodi-
sue_va
16 years ago
Kathy,

That tomato soup sounded so good, I just had to make it.

Slight problem: I didn't have chicken broth, so I used a can of cream of chicken soup. Left out the onions because I just didn't want to chop them. No cream, so I used milk. I added a little salt and pepper.

Don't really need a half gallon so I did 1/4 or so.

It is scrumptious!!

And I have never made, or have tomato soup.

This will become a new comfort soup for me.

Thanks for the recipe

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kathyg_in_mi
Original Author
16 years ago
Glad you enjoyed the soup Sue. Mine was delicious!
Hey Jodi, I have some colby jack cheese from the cheese store and it makes wonderful grilled cheese. I like my GC with a little bit of mayo and a bit of thinly sliced onion on it. Yum!
Kathy G in MI
jenuwin
16 years ago
Sue. With all the changes you made to the OP's recipe, you didn't make her recipe at all.
I must admit to this being a huge pet peeve of mine.
hayjud_mn
16 years ago
I followed the recipe (except for the tomatoes being the fire roasted kind) and that soup is DELICIOUS!
We have enough for a second meal.
kathyg_in_mi
Original Author
16 years ago
Like I said, I all ways double the recipe!
Kathy G in MI
joyfulguy
16 years ago
Thanks for the recipes, folks.

I don't care as much for the homogenous Campbell's Tomato kind as well as one that I've made for a long time.

Ole joyful's Tomato Soup recipe

Heat about 1 cup canned tomatoes in a pot, adding about 1/4 tsp. baking soda and stirring to cut the acidity, so that it doesn't curdle when adding the milk.

Add salt and pepper as needed, plus spices that you choose: thyme, rosemary, basil, sage, etc.

Heat about 1 cup regular milk in a different pot, perhaps slightly more than the amount of the tomato, but you can vary the quantities to suit your taste.

When both are warm, pour the contents of one into the other - I'm not sure which into which, but one way leads to less curdling, I hear.

I like the idea of adding some cream. What level: 6%? 10% 18% (almost certainly not 35% whipping).

I like the identifiable white of the milk and the red of the tomatoes ... and I like the taste better than of the soup from the can.

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