Seriously? People moan about things like cream of whatever soup? Anna, you and your cooking are just lovely. Please don't be discouraged by a minority of people that have no manners and no taste! 😊
@@cooking_the_booksI have used cream of whatever many times fixing food for my boys and their friends to stretch the food . Nothing wrong with using it IMO. I know I never got any complaints and not a child left my home hungry that was the main thing. I knew they were some that ate with us that was their food for the day . Great video Great job like always. 😊
I was a newlywed in the ‘70s. It was a terribly difficult time economically: interest rates were sky high, heating oil was expensive, oil became embargoed by OPEC causing gas rationing, the Watergate instability was going on, and most women didn’t yet work outside the home, etc. After rent and basic bills, out of a $269 paycheck we had exactly $70 (1972 dollars) left for groceries and gas for two weeks: but I remember ground meat was $0.79/pound the day I got married, and there were no fat content percentages listed on the packages. CAMPBELL’s soups were about $0.18/can, the ones I used. There was no internet to use to collect recipes, just collecting from relatives and friends, newspapers and magazines, and the labels and boxes of products. Good cookbooks were expensive. The little recipe books available at the cash register lanes at checkouts in grocery stores were cheap and chock-full of ideas to save money. As a newlywed who had never cooked a thing in my life, Betty Crocker and Bisquick were my pantry lifesavers . . . then came Ragu and Italian food adventures! Crazy days back then, but fondly evoked by your channel. Thank you.
There is an entire generation who missed out on home economics classes and are now attempting to live (and eat) on a budget, with zero clue how (NOT THEIR FAULT!!), and this channel could be an absolute blessing to them! Informative, creative, funny, calming…it’s the education that is necessary, yet completely absent from school curriculum. I hope this channel grows and grows!!
My mom was gone from 6 in the morning until 6 at night. She was raising 3 kids on her own. She was tired, when I was around 15 I started cooking dinner for the family. For those of us without a lot of experience and for those who were exhausted those cream soups were a lifesaver. It meant you could make something creamy without having to make a from scratch cream sauce. And I like the casseroles we made; I still make them. Don't understand why anyone would complain, if you want complicated, go watch the food network.
For those of you who get cranky, aside from being rude, this is a show of vintage recipes and cream of chicken and cream of mushroom were king in the 70s and 80s. Get a grip and enjoy the show. I love these 70s and 80s videos they bring back memories. I thank you. 🙂
Oh my yes. I grew up in the 70s and if they would have had the flavors we have today meals would have been so different. Those bake in a bag things were very popular in the late 70s and 80s. That drives folks nuts too I have noticed. Different times different ideas about nutrition. In 20 years folk are going to be calling food now gross.
@@emily--m I know. Why is actually tasting the food such a bad thing. I use spice very sparingly. I want to taste the veggies and meat. I don't want a mouthful of paprika and garlic powder. There is a time and place for spices but for the most part let the natural flavors sing.
I feel like hamburger + cream of mushroom soup was the basis of 30% of the meals my mom cooked in the 70s. 😂 Both are still helpful for families on a budget!
These recipes always take me back to my childhood. I often cook food like this when I am missing my parents, or just being beaten up by life. I am so glad your channel exists. Thanks, Anna.
I grew up in the ‘70’s and remember my mom giving us Chunky Beef Soup over rice, franks and beans, and tuna macaroni salad. My kids would kill me lol .
What's interesting to me about the "souperburger" recipe is that it's essentially just creamed chipped beef on toast, which is a recipe that outdates it by at least 30yrs.
I grew in the 60s and 70s and my mom was a great cook. She made almost everything from scratch, but when she discovered the joys of Cream of Mushroom soup she made a stroganoff to die for! I have my grandmother's homemade cookbook that has recipes clipped from newspapers in the 40s and 50s. Some recipes with ingredients you can't find anymore. I love to read her book just for the memories. I've been in a "love vintage everything mood" for the last few months, so I really enjoy your channel. Keep the recipes coming, because you are much loved by this community!💖
@gopugmama4408 I hope you will leave that book to someone in your family who will appreciate it. And if you don't have anyone who will appreciate it, perhaps have it mailed to Anna!
When I subscribed to your channel, I knew what I was getting into. Having been born in 1969, raised by a mother bornin 1932, and having received a Campbell's cookbook at my bridal shower, I know and am perfectly okay with cream soup being used, as well as plain old-fashioned cooking. What is wrong with these people...I am thrilled that younger people like you are reviving my childhood with these dishes!
@@ManyaP64 Yes, I love it, its so versatile. When she told me that it was like a new world opened up. But it is a skill that takes time and sometimes an extra dish to clean. So I can see why people would want to use a canned soup. Now, depending on the dish, I'll use a canned soup.
What I mostly see are recipes or RU-vidrs that advertise certain recipes as having "no cream of anything soup" like it's virtue signaling or something.
I think it is the sodium content for those that have to restrict the salt intake, but these recipes don't have additional salt anyway. I still use cream of whatever kind soups and I'm 85 so it hasn't killed me yet. I love her vintage recipes.
I’m supposed to be on a high sodium diet (POTS), is cream of mushroom soup really that high in sodium?! I’m over here eating half a jar of olives, drinking pickle juice, etc, with doctors STILL complaining my sodium is too low!! 😣 idk what they want from me at this point, I can’t even taste things anymore, it’s all salt. lol
Interesting recipes. I was in 4-H, too. I'm sorry people can't just enjoy your videos without commenting on ingredients. I have several food allergies, but I just enjoy your presentations and the nostalgia. When you make these dishes, I can remember my mom or grandmothers teaching me how to cook 😊
Random thought. I have crohns disease and have been admitted to the hospital WAY too many times. Usually on a full liquid diet. Hence a large amount of cream of whatever soup. Its now known as cream of crap affectionately in my house. But i do still love it.
The fact that you had to put the disclaimer in at the beginning because of trolls in the comments is so sad. Those people are pathetic and need to shut up and click elsewhere. Now, here sit the rest of us enjoying your channel and being happy to see a new video has posted! :)
I will never understand people posting negative/hateful comments when all they have to do is not watch. They need to move on. Me and hubby love you and your videos. ❤️🥰❤️
I know that Campbells and Franco American were the same company because my friend's father worked for Campbell Soup company. They had a full pantry of spaghetto's, canned spaghetti, along with cans of soup. they also had so much promotional stuff for campbells and franco american (plate and silverware sets, aprons, potholders, mugs, etc). When she went to college out of state, her father would send her cases of soup. Personally, I love canned soup....and haters need to find another channel.
The burger recipe reminds me of hamburger stroganoff without the sour cream. Stroganoff has hamburger, onion, canned mushrooms, mushroom soup, and sour cream served over egg noodles.
We all like what we like. If someone doesnt like cream soups, they dont have to indulge. They are restricting their perspectives about your message tho--and I hope they can learn to appreciate the sense of history you are sharing with your beloved collection. Since these people assume you are insisting they stop whatever they are doing and make what you have filmed, then please let me be the first to direct them to the tuna ring video.😅
Oh my gosh!! Those 'souper burgers' are what we called 'sloppy joes' growing up!! I didn't have the red sauce sloppy joes until I was well into high school. I always thought my grandma invented it because she hates tomatoes, it's so cool to see it was an actual thing.
When I was a kid, my Mom always made sloppy Joes with Campbell's chicken gumbo soup and mustard. Sounds disgusting but it was really good. Even my little friends loved them. I just never told them how it was made. Lol
I won't lie, I love learning new "cream of whatever" soup recipes. When I have time, I'll make them with a homemade white sauce, and when I need a fast meal, I'll make the cream soup version. We call it the "soccer mom" version in my house. True win!
I inherited a cook book from my grandmother who has since passed away, Woman’s Home Companion Cook book copyright 1942. Have you ever come across this in your travels? Of course it’s from the 2nd world war so there are a lot of substitutions due to rations. It’s my plan to delve into this book eventually.. maybe when I retire? lol. It’s so fascinating! There are instructions on how to set a table, how to carve meat, formal teas etc! I am so happy that I have a piece of my grandma with me❤️
You seem like you’re being harassed, Take heart I was just commend you on your wonderful channel and you’re cooking right in the 70s where I was. Thank you so much.
This is not the meatball channel! Crack me up. That Roma recipe looks like it would be good on pasta. Make it go further without much expense. Thanks girl!
Had to comment a second time. I'm not sure if alphabet soup is still made, but I remember in Home Economics class in 1969, we meal a souper burger mix using condensed alphabet soup instead of a cream soup. Cooking with canned soups really was a thing in the 60's and through the 80's. Flavorful and economical.
For the croquettes if you don’t want to use the soup, you could do an egg with some bouillon - I’d stir some powdered bouillon into the scrambled egg to not miss out on the flavor!!
I don't know how I would have been able to cook without "cream of" soups. 40 yrs and still use them when I need to. Pot roasts, Creamy Swiss steak, Swedish meatballs and meatball stews, and a hundred different casseroles. I'm a comfort food cook, one pot, crock pot & oven baked casseroles are my style. Hail the "cream of" soups!👍🏻❤️
People can be lame.. I love that you said.. just don’t make these recipes.. lol I mean, people.. really? 😂 These all looked so good! And wow! That frozen soup! I want those to come back!
My WWII Navy veteran dad would have called the first dish "shit on a shingle." (He was a sailor, after all!) Basically ground beef made with its own gravy from the juices and served on white bread. We had this many times as a kid.
Campbell's now has no salt added cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soups, for anyone who may need to restrict their sodium intake. It might make these recipes a little more expensive, though
In my experience trolls are everywhere on social media and miserable complaining people with opinions are EVERYWHERE!! Ignore them those of us who love you are here for your imperfect lovely videos. You are the relaxed real wind down moment in my very busy day. I get a ton of inspiration from your vintage recipes. Do you lady we are here for it. ❤
I ‘m enjoying what are for me flashbacks to cooking in another era. I use the various cream of _____ soups in my slow cooker recipes on a regular basis. Use it, don’t use, do whatever is your thing.
I love all your videos and your infectious, happy attitude Anna. It is hard to believe that people would actually give you negative feedback over cream soups. Sheesh, I think they need to lighten up. If you don't like cream soups....don't make the darn recipe or make it using something you do like. The end.
Exactly!!! And I really enjoy the videos too🥰 I think Anna is very informative and explains things very well. She does have a very warm, down to earth personality.
Cream soups are a no for gluten and dairy restrictions, but all one needs to do is make a roux with your gf and/or vegan replacement and add whatever flavor.
my friend discovered the ground beef/mushroom soup dish back in the 70s when we were all newly married and poor. she served it over mashed potatoes. it quickly became a regular on all our meal plans and even made it to a few pot lucks. thanks for the memory.
I'd be willing to bet that the Souper Burger recipe you remember also included some dried onion soup as well. That would pretty much address everything you found lacking in the recipe as is.
You can also make a roux with flour and oil, add cream, milk or broth spices and/or seasonings and make your own sauces to use in place of canned soups. That way you can control the salt content.
I think I remember Souperburgers being a category of sorts. There were several different ones. I remember one made with Onion soup (in today's soup aisle, it would be closer to French Onion, not Cream of Onion - it was broth based, not creamy) and one made with Cream of Tomato and one made either Vegetable soup. I never had any of them, but was intrigued. My mother never made anything except a tuna casserole dish with cream soup and we would only have had it a couple of times except we loved it and begged for it. 😂 ETA: I first made Chicken Croquettes using the recipe from your 1970s Better Homes Cookbook with the red checked cover!
To the Trolls, Complainers and Crabby Patties, you need to get a grip ! Seriously, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all ! Thank you, Anna. I love all your enthusiasm and your love of vintage cookbooks and recipes. I’m envious of your vintage dishes, reminds me of my childhood. Sending ❤ from Indiana
I won’t complain about you using cream of soups. Cream of mushroom soup or broccoli etc. poured over top of cooked rice has been my major meal many times in the past when I had barely any money or barely any food. And even today I still love having cream of mushroom soup over top of cooked rice with maybe some cooked spinach added in. Healthy and nutritious and filling.
We still eat something similar to the souper burger. We omit the mustard and add green beans then eat it over rice. We almost always make it with turkey as well.
The soupburger recipe reminded me of bit of Swedish Meatbals just deconstructed and without the rice. I bet it would be really good served over rice and would bulk out the servings without having to serve any extra sides.
The rumor is true, the Detroit Lions are one win away from playing in the Superbowl....Maybe next year Browns!!! Love ya Anna and your content! Tina from Michigan
I love your videos, it’s like memory lane. My mom used to add cream of mushroom soup to our macaroni and cheese. I personally don’t care for canned soup so I always find a replacement or make from scratch. Keep following those recipes and don’t apologize. Campbells was king in the 60’s and 70’s.
I just discovered this video and I remember these kinds of recipes. My mom made alot of these recipes. Yes they used alot of cream of whatever soups. Nostalgia at it's finest. TY for the memories. Ignore the complainers. Don't change anything!❤
That skillet Roma would be great recipe for summer, when friends and neighbors are showering you with free garden stuff, lol. I’m not a gardener either, so I appreciate those who do!
There’s a recipe in an earlier Campbells book called “Skillet Franks and Noodles” that I loved as a kid and still do to this day. My children renamed it Weinies Alfredo😂
@@cooking_the_books it’s in the red 1974 edition “Cooking with Soup” on page 11. My mother first found the recipe in a magazine many years before that, though.
Your first recipe we made all the time. But instead of serving on a bun, we'd serve over rice and also add worstershire (sp?). I still make it to this day. My mom called it stroganoff. Lol.
Souper burgers. My mom made ones called that but it was the dehydrated soups in the pouches that you just put in a mug and add hot water. They had like chicken noodle(it was very thin and cut short noodle and a loose seasoning powder), vegetable and cream flavored ones (like asparagus and broccoli) and then they had the french onion soup mix that everyone used to season hamburgers, spaghetti sauce with meat balls, stews, soups, cream cheese...lots of different things. I think lipton cup a soups had a whole cookbook of just the french onion soup.
@@cooking_the_books if i am remembering right, him almost 56 so this was 40/45 years ago. She got it were most moms did on that rack at the check out. The one with the soap opera weekly, enquirer , lady home journal and that weird one that always had the aliens, bat boy, some uncivilized tribe found in Norway...you know the one. It wasn't a cheap newsprint paper ones with the classified ads in the back. Send me $1 dollar and a self addressed stamped envelope and i will send you my 5 favorite recipes or sea monkeys or crochet patterns ect. It was not a smaller squarish one. It was taller than wider. It had a card stock front and back with some glossy pictures inside. And it had those odd pencil drawings of random veggies and dishes... ya i know im describing every late 70 early 80 check out cook book... But i remember for sure it was liptons because i thought it was funny my tea place made cup of soup. I swear every house i was ever in during that time had french onion soup mix, shake n bake and bisquik in the kitchen. That of course cream of..inter veggies here...soup.
My mother introduced "souperburgers" to her limited repertoire when the recipe was first released. She used Campbell's Minestrone soup and ran them under the broiler with slices of cheddar on top. I can't say I'd ever go out of my way to make these for guests, but I like them and still make them on occasion.
The first recipe was one similar to one I made out of Fannie Farmer called Hamburger Stroganoff. There WERE mushrooms in it the soup and Sour Cream. I’d forgotten all about it. Love watching you cook, thank you
Hmmm ... the first one made me think of hamburger stroganoff on a bun! 😊 The second one looked really good! Hey, your imperfections make you who you are! Pity some folks feel the need to be petty. Glad you call that out! And the third one also looks really good! THANK YOU for another great video!!!
Haters gonna hate, Anna. Let the negative comments blow away if you can, as these trolls don’t obviously have a clue that your channel is about cooking with vintage cookbooks. If you grew up in the 60’s and 70’s as I did, these recipes are a comforting reminder of simpler, better days. Just last night I made a tuna casserole using cream of mushroom soup. It was a recipe my late Grandmother used to make for me and I ate it and remembered her love for me. Keep up the good work!
For the burgers, a dash of Worcestershire sauce will take it a long way, as well as thinning the sauce with a little milk. And for the croquettes, classic croquettes are based on a thick bechamel, or what my mom and my home ec teacher called white sauce. I learned the cornstarch variant, which is milk, cornstarch, butter, salt and pepper. In my teens I worked at a cafe whose big secret was a drop of Tabasco in their white gravy, literally not enough to really discern the heat, which brightened the flavor.
That's one thing I won't skimp on. Canned soups. I have to always buy Campbell's soup. The off brand just doesn't taste the same. I don't usually like to buy canned soups because I like to make my own. But, when I do buy canned soups it definitely has to be Campbell's.
I can’t find oyster stew anymore. My granny made meatballs over canned spaghetti! She made it when we were going there on Friday night in the winter. They lived on a farm three hours away.
I just came across your channel; btought back forgotten memories of myself as a brand new homemaker in the 70's. I married in 1974, as most newlyweds then, we had a tight budget that first year. I remember having Campbells soup cookbooks, used them often. Such a fun video of years gone by. Thanks for the memories!
Hi Anna, thank you very much for your videos! I love the recipes that you choose and I have made quite a few of them. I prepared the the chicken croquettes yesterday and they became an instant favourite for me and my partner. Please don't pay attention to people who moan and complain; sadly this is the time we live in, it is so easy to criticise without contributing.
Souper burger: First... if someone doesn't like canned cream soup, just make your own! It's not hard. I make homemade cream of mushroom with portabellas that is fantastic! Also... you could just use ground pork, and sub sage, a whiff of curry powder, and black pepper for the mustard, and you'd have "Biscuits and gravy" burgers!
