Dougherty Family Recipe Box

Category: Soup

  • Chunky Potato Soup

    Ingredients

    • 6 strips raw bacon
    • 2 yellow onions chopped
    • 8 large yellow potatoes peeled and chopped
    • 6 cups chicken stock
    • 2 cups milk
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
    • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
    • 2 green onions sliced

    Method

    1. Cook raw bacon in a frying pan until crisp, set aside.
    2. Cook onions in bacon fat until soft.
    3. Add potatoes to stock pot with chicken stock and bring to boil.
    4. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and let simmer 25 minutes.
    5. Using a potato masher, mash potatoes in stock until soup thickens but chunks of potato remain.
    6. Add crumbled bacon, cooked onions, milk, spice, cheese, and green onions to soup and simmer a few minutes longer.

    Source

    Unknown source in Janice’s writing.

  • Borscht

    This is a “what’s in the pantry” recipe with flexible quantities. It doesn’t really matter because the beets turn everything purple and beet flavoured.

    Ingredients

    • beets
    • potatoes
    • carrots
    • onions
    • beet tops
    • shelled green peas
    • salt
    • pepper
    • dill

    Method

    1. Chop everything and put it into a large stock pot.
    2. Cover with water.
    3. Simmer until everything is tender.
    4. Serve with sour cream and vinegar.

    Source

    Holitzki family recipe.