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Discover a mouthwatering array of soups from classic consommés to rich chowders to creamy bisques. Packed with inspiring ideas from all cultures and featuring ingredients from all corners of the world, there's something to suit every palate!

Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy presents outstanding recipes for almost every soup you could want — more than seven hundred in all. Many are thick or thin, others hot or cold, taking hours to prepare or just minutes. They include soups that are perfect preludes for a feast, and inexpensive yet rich and hearty options that are meals in themselves. At the same time, the author teaches basic principles of successful preparation and offers many alternate recipes, giving cooks a wide range of flexibility.
After an opening chapter explaining basic stocks and other fundamentals, Chef De Gouy introduces 61 different hot consommés; 65 chilled and jellied consommés and soups; 76 flavored by beer, fruit, nuts, or wine; 106 cream soups; thirty-three bisques; 100 chowders; and many others, including a special section of 117 easy-to-make recipes from combinations of various canned soups. Soups from many cultures and using almost every ingredient include chilled borscht and vichyssoise, dark beer and bread soup, clam bisque, codfish chowder, Philadelphia pepper pot, and hundreds of others. At the same time, the author teaches basic principles of successful preparation and offers many alternate recipes, giving cooks a wide range of flexibility.
  Thick and thin, hot and cold, complex and simple — here are soups for every appetite and occasion. Louis P. De Gouy, a master chef and co-founder of Gourmet magazine, presents more than 700 outstanding recipes for bisques, chowders, consommés, and other soups.Teach yourself basic principles of soup preparation: From basic stocks to jellied consommés and bisques, this book will have you creating tasty soups in no time! Learn how to make different thicknesses of soups, including chowders and cream soups.An extensive range of recipes: From chilled borscht and vichyssoise, to dark beer and bread soup, clam bisque, codfish chowder, Philadelphia pepper pot, and many more. Learn the basics of making stock, as well as easy-to-follow steps for creating your favorite soups.Enjoy easy-to-make canned soup combinations: Have fun experimenting with pre-made cans as bases for some of your favorite dishes. Over 117 quick recipes let you enjoy hearty soups without all the fuss.Customize recipes to suit your taste: Make your family's favorites or experiment with different flavors and ingredients. With flexible instructions on how to adjust each recipe for optimal flavor and presentation, you'll always have the perfect soup ready for any occasion!

From the Publisher

Thick and thin, hot and cold, complex and simple — here are soups for every appetite and occasion. Louis P. De Gouy, a master chef and co-founder of Gourmet magazine, presents more than 700 outstanding recipes for bisques, chowders, consommés, and other soups.Teach yourself basic principles of soup preparation: From basic stocks to jellied consommés and bisques, this book will have you creating tasty soups in no time! Learn how to make different thicknesses of soups, including chowders and cream soups.An extensive range of recipes: From chilled borscht and vichyssoise, to dark beer and bread soup, clam bisque, codfish chowder, Philadelphia pepper pot, and many more. Learn the basics of making stock, as well as easy-to-follow steps for creating your favorite soups.Enjoy easy-to-make canned soup combinations: Have fun experimenting with pre-made cans as bases for some of your favorite dishes. Over 117 quick recipes let you enjoy hearty soups without all the fuss.Customize recipes to suit your taste: Make your family's favorites or experiment with different flavors and ingredients. With flexible instructions on how to adjust each recipe for optimal flavor and presentation, you'll always have the perfect soup ready for any occasion!

The Soup Book

A master chef and co-founder of Gourmet magazine presents more than 700 outstanding recipes for bisques, chowders, consommés, and other soups that can serve as a perfect prelude to a feast or as an inexpensive but rich and hearty meal in itself.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; reprint edition (September 12, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486826945
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486826943
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.82 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.26 x 9.25 inches
Reviewer: jg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not for the inexperienced cook. If you know your way around the kitchen this book is for you
Review: I love making soups, especially ones that are a little different and uniqueI bought this book on a whim and I am glad I did. I have spent the last few days just reading through the different recipes. I had to stop writing down the new ideas and from this book because there were just too many. And it was written in 1949.This book is not for the inexperienced cook although you don't have to be and accomplished cook to understand what's going on with his ideas. There are no pretty pictures. He just writes the recipes down in short paragraphs for the most part. When he does expand on a topic, it is always well written and interesting. This guy knows his business

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Soup cook book
Review: Easy to follow the recipes

Reviewer: Sam c
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Overwhelming
Review: This an ideal book for someone who likes to try various soup recipes. Due to the large amount of recipes in the book, I was overwhelmed at first. However, there is a table of contents in the book that narrow it down to what type of soup you are wanting to make, which is helpful. Soup lovers are bound to find a recipe that they’ll love!

Reviewer: Aj norris
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Soup for soul
Review: Soup is great this gift for someone who enjoy soup n learn new recipes

Reviewer: josiahgibbs
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Weird soups you'll never want to make, ever
Review: I had high expectations for this book. They were all disappointed ...Many, many recipes using seafoods that are simply not available inland. I think maybe 3/4 of the recipes are for seafood -- there are fewer than a dozen using chicken, only four that use beef (counting the beef liver soup). Way too many "soups" are chilled or jellied and not something you'll use for a family.Do I want to contemplate Cream of Eel? No, I do not.Cream of Bread?? Literally breadcrusts and waterThere's an entire chapter of nothing but opening cans of condensed soup, mixing different types together, and reconstituting them with alcoholDo you need five recipes for Shrimp Bisque? I don't -- nor do I need the multiples with only the slightest variations for so many other soupsA lot -- a LOT -- of the recipes he dates to medieval eras. Hey, there's a reason why those recipes are not in use anymore, much of it having to do with disgusting ingredients and primitive methods that nobody today has either the tools or the time to tryAnd as others have said, this is entirely in paragraph form, not an easily usable cookbook with a list of ingredients followed by a method. Some paragraphs fill an entire page and spill over to the next page -- you don't even have paragraph breaks to keep your place in preparation.I haven't yet found one recipe I would be in the remotest interested in making. Not a single one.

Reviewer: Bill E
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: its a cook book
Review: Well... there are some great recipes and there are some very odd weird interesting ones... BUT if your a person that likes some pics to get inspired this one wont get you there...

Reviewer: Jessie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My bestie loved it
Review: I got this for my bestie who got married as a wedding gift. She loves soup said she would eat soup for every meal every day if she could. She loved it.

Reviewer: StillLife
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another excellent Louis P. De Gouy cookbook with everything you could possibly want to know about soup
Review: I discovered Louis P. De Gouy when my then husband, whose mother loved cooking, bought a used copy of _The Gold Cookbook_; I read it, I loved his interesting comments and recipes. Mr. De Gouy "apprenticed under his father Jean H. De Gouy, Esquire of Cuisine, at the Courts of Austria and Belgium and under the great Maitre Escoffier. He served as Master Chef and Chef Steward in France, England, Spain, the United States and many other countries." Besides 800 soup recipes for Hot Consommes, Chilled and Jellied Consommes and Soups, Chilled, Hot, and Jellied Beer, Fruit, Nut, and Wine Soups, and Canned Soup Combinations (using such canned soups as Cream of Mushroom, Clam Chowder, Cream of Celery, Bean Soup, with recommended garnishes), Cream Soups, Bisques, Chowders, Miscellaneous Soups (such as Calf's Head Soup, Caraway Seed Soup, Cheese Soup), the book includes Ball Garnishes for Soups (such as Alsatian Burger Balls, Cracker Spicy Balls, Egg Balls, Mignonnette or Puff Balls), Custard Garnishes for Soups (from Almond to Truffle alphabetically), Dumpling Garnishes for Soups (from All-Bran Thimble-Size Dumplings to Whole Wheat Dumplings), and Miscellaneous Soup Garnishes (from Almond Sticks to Tortillas, alphabetically). This book will last me my lifetime, and I'm glad I bought this used but still excellent book!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: If you are looking for good simple recipes this is excellent. Even the section on how to transform canned soups is surprisingly good. Highly recommended!

Reviewer: Katherine B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: Alex Brown
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Words can't describe, this is cheffy at it's best, loads of tips and tricks for making soup, I've decided on a new soup every fortnight, made two so far and they were amazing. Definitely recommend!

Reviewer: Mrs J. Tilden
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Winter is coming fast,and the men in the family love soup on a cold day. I love to make things for myself,and not open a can that contains more additives than soup.This book is ideal,it has virtually every type of soup,be it clear,creamed or consomme. Just what I wanted. A souper buy!!

Reviewer: ANDREW
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Recipes are over complicated with ingredients which are difficult to find.