Please recommend a good soup book

[FayeGovan]

Just wasted more money on buying ingredients and following a recipe and its yuck.

When a recipe says stock, do you use stock cubes and water? How much to a litre of water?

Im fed up, i love soup and can cook lots but soup really makes me struggle.

A good basic soup recipe book would be great.

New Covent GardenFood Co - a soup for every day

www.waterstones.com/book/soup-for-every-day/new-covent-garden-soup-company/9780752227436

Stock cube and water - I tend to add a veggie and a meat one in. Recipe wise I put the veg in that needs using up plus some herbs/spices and/or any left over meat or a can of beans for protein.

I always Google what herbs/spices work best with what veg. This system has never failed me and solves the potential food wastage issue

I can’t help you with a recipe book but I use marigold bouillon powder as the stock but not the low salt one!

I used to use marigold as pp said but now use knorr stock pot thingys and my soup has improved! I mainly chuck in whatever is in the veg drawer with lentils or split peas, depending on how much time I have. I do make other fancier soups but all from various books rather than a specific soup one. There's a great tomato soup recipe on bbc good food!

I use stock cubes. 1 cube to 500ml water. I really don't think you need a book when probably hundreds of thousands of excellent soup recipes are on the internet. Start with sites like BBC Good Food or Olive Magazine.

Or just google "Jamie Oliver soup" or whoever else you trust. Maybe Delia Smith. Or Mary Berry. They'll all have loads of classic recipes.

A Celebration of Soup by Lindsey Bareham.
It's like a soup encyclopedia, includes a section on "the foundation of soup", ie stock recipes, has recipes from all over the world and all kinds of styles.
And it's really readable, absolutely brilliant book.

Ah great advice thanks all

Lindsey Bareham, A Celebration of Soup.