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> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:11:59 -0600, DreadfulBitch
> > wrote:
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>>On 2/4/2014 6:12 AM, wrote:
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>>> Are you trying to say that Beef Stroganoff should have a can of soup
>>> in it ? I would suggest YOUR cooking is way off if you think it
>>> does!
>>>
>>> In actual fact, that recipe was a more time consuming way to try and
>>> make something resembling Beef Stroganoff than making a real Beef
>>> Stroganoff !
>>>
>>I found a recipe when my now adult son was little. I don't remember
>>where I found it but it was titled "Economy Beef Stroganoff." I'm sure
>>if I listed the ingredients here there would be people fainting all
>>over, unable to believe I'd prepare such a nasty meal. Fact of the
>>matter, my son and husband love it and it got prepared often when our
>>son still lived at home. Son has now appropriated the dish as his
>>"signature" dish and prepares it every time he and his girlfriend have
>>friends over for dinner. It is, most definitely, a crowd pleaser.
>>
>>On second thought, I believe I will start another thread with my Economy
>>Beef Stroganoff recipe. For the purists here please take a seat before
>>opening the thread. (-:
>
> Why would you consider adding a can of soup to something that does not
> require it, economical ?? Perhaps you are talking about something
> other than Beef Stroganoff ?
Used to be in this country, canned soup was considered the food of the poor
because you could get it for really cheap or sometimes free if you had
coupons, particularly if your store doubled or tripled those coupons.
Didn't apply to all soups. Was usually the Campbell's tomato, chicken and
noodle and cream of mushroom. I suspect that a lot of recipes involved
using the cream of mushroom soup only because people could get it so cheap
and likely had tons of it in the house.
Those three are still usually the cheapest of the soups as sales go but the
coupons I've seen for them don't give you much money off and often you have
to buy three of them. I think such soups could be had for around 10 cents a
can when I was a kid. By the time I was a young adult, they were perhaps 25
cents and now I've sometimes seen them at three for $1.00 Note that these
are the sale prices.
Another thing you can get for cheap is Ramen soup. And yes there are
cookbooks telling you of various things to do with Ramen to change it up
but... I think there are far more recipes out there that involve cream
soup. Not sure why that is.
I think the only things my mom ever used cream soup for were the tuna
casserole and the Tater Tot casserole. Possibly the Chicken Amandine. I
think it did use some kind of soup but perhaps not the cream of. I did just
talk to her. The Chicken Amandine did use soup but not cream and there were
no other things she made that used soup.
She did have a cookbook though. Betty Crocker, Cooking for Two or some such
thing. Hideous book that involved some sort of canned soup in probably
close to half of the recipes. There actually was one recipe that called for
two cans of soup. Mix them together and you had a new soup! One was a type
of soup no longer made by the time I was a kid. I want to say Chicken
Gumbo. These sorts of recipes severely disappointed me when I was a kid. I
loved to cook and the more difficult and complicated the recipe, the better
in my eyes. How could it be that combining two cans of soup was cooking?