Posted by Suzanne McMinn on January 28, 2008 @ 5:05 am
Tags: bacon, potatoes, soups
Soups & Stews, The Farmhouse Table
OH MY. This is the best soup in the history of soups. (I conducted exhaustive research before making that statement. I’m quite full now.)
How to make Baked Potato Soup:
Start out with four really big baking potatoes. Bake, cool, peel, and cut up. While potatoes are baking, fry 10 strips of pepper bacon. Cool and crumble.
Then, in a large soup pot, melt 2/3 cup butter. Add 2/3 cup flour and 1 medium chopped onion. Once butter/flour/onion mixture thickens and bubbles, add 7 cups milk, 1 cup shredded Cheddar, 8 ounces sour cream, potatoes, and 3/4 teaspoon seasoned salt.
Simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in crumbled bacon, and serve immediately. YUM.
Note: If you use regular bacon, add 1/2 teaspoon of coarse ground pepper. Or, add some coarse ground pepper even if you do use peppered bacon. This soup LOVES pepper!
Then invite the cousins over and tell them each to bring their own bowl because you don’t have enough bowls, but that is another story…..
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7:53
am
I think I’ll just pop over for lunch today. Is there any fresh bread/rolls to go with that? And what’s for dessert?
-Kim
7:56
am
BTW, re. today’s PhotoBlog: Yes, she knows how valuable that glass is. She just doesn’t care!
-Kim
8:01
am
This looks delicious, and with some of your biscuits, I think I’d just slip happily into a buttery coma!!
BW
9:30
am
That looks so good. Nothing like hot homemade soup on a cold winter’s day!
10:12
am
Perfect for the weather we’re having. Of course this means I actually have to cook it . . .
10:21
am
I have my bowl and spoon
That looks so delicious. YUM-YUM. I want to know why my finished product never looks as good as yours? 
I swear I gain 10 pounds just looking at your food. 
How do you stay so slender? I am looking foeward to trying this recipe though. Don’t even care if it’s fattening. Have a great day and 
and good eating to all.
10:22
am
Kim, how about sour cream cornmeal biscuits and some chocolate pudding cake?
10:23
am
Mmmm…great idea! A perfect winter meal if there ever was one.
10:31
am
I’m in, Suzanne! Yum!
BTW, I’ve made the chocolate pudding cake several times now. Mom has a recipe that is similar, except hers takes 1/2 cup of melted butter. Ugh. I get a gall stone/bladder attack just thinking of it. LOL.
Anyway, I’ve actually made a couple of modifications to your recipe, in the attempt to be a bit healthier. I use whole wheat flour (1 cup) and increase the baking powder to 3 teaspoons, and I halve the sugar in both the cake and the topping. (I prefer a very dark chocolate taste, not particularly sweet.) I also found that I had to add a bit more milk, maybe 2/3 cup instead of the 1/2 cup, and I also add a little bit more hot water over all. (I found mine too dry otherwise. What can I say? I’m not great in the kitchen!)
Actually, I made some last night; it was good!
-Kim
10:37
am
Kim, oooh, that sounds good! I’ll have to try it that way.
10:43
am
This sounds really good, but when do you add in the baked potatoes? I would like to give it a try.
10:47
am
Comfort food at its stunning best. Yum.
11:06
am
Oh boy. I think my hips spread just from reading the ingredients. Is there any left? I’ll take seconds.
11:20
am
Hi, Nancy! Drat, how did I leave that out? LOL. I fixed it now-you add the potatoes in with the milk and cheese, etc. Thank you!
11:47
am
Of course you would give out a wonderful recipe like that when we’re without a stove, kitchen sink and cabinets! We had a pipe burst in the kitchen.
I wrote it down for later! 
1:35
pm
I like Baked Potato soup but not with cheese. Okay if I leave it out? *g* You’ve made me HUNGRY!
3:26
pm
What a good recipe for the weather we’re having.
6:21
pm
That looks sooooooooo good… especially after being forced to eat greasy buffet food every night on my trip! Thank God it was just for a weekend! Give me some homecooked veggies!!!
If you’re ever in Charleston, check out Taylor Books’ soup. Their potato leek soup is my fave!
7:47
pm
I just wanted to say if this soup is as good as the chocolate pudding cake…I am going to gain a few pounds hanging out here with you. Good company will make me forget about the calories. Thanks for the recipe!
10:46
pm
It looks scruptious. Back in the day I used to make potato soup but now that I usually only cook for two… I just don’t know how to make a small pot of soup lol.
10:47
pm
okay I can’t type - scrumptious of course
10:43
am
GOD, I am THIS CLOSE to telling my boss I have a headache and going home RIGHT NOW to make some of that delicious-looking potato soup. YUM!
12:57
am
This is almost exactly the recipe my mom would make on a cool/cold day, only difference, “peppered bacon” did not happen in this household “back in the day”. Thanks for helping me remember a memory.
6:56
pm
OMG, at first glance, seeing that pepper, it freaked me out, thinking I accidently clicked on the frog eggs again. on the water page. LOL LOL LOL
All kidding aside, this soup looks soooo good and I plan to try it.
8:58
pm
I was just given this recipe from one of your readers “Becky” and I am going to try it tomorrow and I to do not have enough bowls
Nancy
11:14
am
We are having this soup for lunch today! As a matter of fact, in about 45 minutes! YUM
11:15
am
P.S. - I am using a Vidalia onion, for the onion, too!
1:53
pm
We had the soup and it was SOOOO good! I heartily recommend it!