Campbell’s no longer makes Printanier soup, but it does still make Vegetable in beef stock, and I eat it all the time. It’s especially nice on a coldish June day like today, 50 degrees with rain. This summer is a reward for two previous hot ones.
From a 1922 Ladies Home Journal:
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The ingredients: Choice white potatoes, Jersey “sweets”, Chantenay carrots, tender yellow turnips – all daintily diced. Luscious tomatoes, sliced Dutch cabbage. Country Gentleman corn, baby lima beans, small peas, selected barley, alphabet macaroni – all blended with a rich stock made from fine beef, flavored with fresh herbs and tasty seasoning.
Current ingredients from the Campbell website:
A flavorful recipe of carrots, hearty potatoes, celery, peas, and pasta in a savory beef stock.
The can also lists corn, and the actual soup contains corn. Potatoes are dominant.
Considerably simpler. What’s missing now? Barley, lima beans, cabbage, turnips, “Jersey sweets” (sweet potatoes).
I always fortify everything with barley and broccoli and carrots, plus other mixed frozen veg, so my result ends up about the same as the 1922 original.
The price is actually cheaper now. 12 cents in 1922 officially adjusts to $2.16 now, and Safeway sells the soup for $1.99 now.
Campbells holds consistent quality, even during the lockdown lunacy and “supply” “shortage” when most other products were unavailable or defective.
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