Book Buzz: Warm up with Book of Soup
By CATHLEEN FISH
Hillsboro Library Director
Now that the weather has decided to stay cool, what better way to warm up than with a big bowl of home-made soup? Nothing beats a bowl on a chilly day to soothe the senses and warm the heart.
A new book at Hillsboro Public Library will be just what you need to make the soup you are craving. "Taste of Home's Big Book of Soup" is chock-full of 544 recipes. You will find hints to make the most basic ingredient of a good soup-stock. There are more than 30 recipes for the most popular soup of all — chicken. Other soups include beef, pork, meatless, creamed soups and bisques, bean and lentil, chowders, chili, and stews.
Recipes also are included for those hot summer days when a chilled fruit or veggie soup would taste refreshing. You can even prepare a special gift or plan ahead for those times when you only have a few minutes to make a meal. A chapter with recipes for soup mixes can be just what you need to make a gift for someone's stocking!
Come check out this book today!
"Cooking up a Storm" by House of White Birches also is new to the library's shelves. The kitchen was the center of the home back in the good old days. This 160-page book beautifully illustrates the days when Grandma's favorite recipes met the busy, frenetic time of the baby boom years.
This book is filled with first person remembrances of three square meals, plus milk and cookies after school, along with dozens of recipes submitted by readers of Good Old Days magazine. Categories are: The Most Important Meal (breakfasts); Home-Baked Memories; The Noon Hour was Dinnertime; Delightful Desserts; Supper Around the Table.
Stories particularly appropriate for this time of year include: Christmas Cranberries; Grandma's Soup; Mama's Fruitcake; Christmas Divinity; and Dad's Beef Stew.
