cream soup base

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup butter
• 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 cups milk
• 2 cubes chicken bouillon
• ground black pepper to taste

Recipe

Cook Time: 15 mins Ready Time: 15 mins


• melt butter in a saucepan. add flour and make a paste. add milk and bouillon cubes. cook over low heat until thickened. add pepper to taste. add more milk when adding the other soup ingredients, depending on the thickness you desire.
• to this base you may add steamed broccoli and american cheese; or chunks of baked potato (peel and all) with american cheese, bacon pieces, and chives; or pureed, stewed tomatoes for a bisque; or leeks that have been cleaned well, steamed, and chopped; or cooked asparagus cut in pieces (if canned asparagus is used, add some of the liquid as well), topped with grated cheese and bacon pieces.