Cream soup

A cream soup is a soup prepared using cream, light cream, half and half, or milk as a key ingredient.^[1] Sometimes the dairy product is added at the end of the cooking process, such as after a cream soup has been puréed.^[2]

A cream soup will often have a soup base, prepared with ingredients such as onion, celery, garlic powder, celery salt, butter, bacon drippings, flour, salt, pepper, paprika, milk, light cream, and chicken stock or vegetable stock.^[3] Various vegetables or meats are then added to the base. Sometimes, leftover vegetables and meats are used in cream soups.^[4]

List of cream soups

A multitude of notable cream soups exist, including, but not limited to the following listed below.

Image	Name	Description
	Bisque	Heavy cream soups traditionally prepared with shellfish, but can be made with any type of seafood or other base ingredients^[5]
	Bobó de camarão	A chowder-like Brazilian dish of shrimp in a purée of manioc (or cassava) meal with coconut milk and other ingredients.^[6]
	Chowder	Often prepared with milk or cream, fish chowder, corn chowder, and clam chowder are especially popular in the North American regions of New England and Atlantic Canada.
	Clam chowder	Any of several chowder soups containing clams and broth, many regional variations exist, but the two most prevalent are New England or "white" clam chowder, a cream-based chowder, and Rhode Island/Manhattan "red" clam chowder, which is typically prepared without a cream base.
	Corn chowder	Basic corn chowder ingredients comprise corn, onion, celery, milk or cream and butter.
	Cream of asparagus soup	Asparagus, a light chicken or vegetable stock and milk or cream are primary ingredients.^[7]
	Cream of broccoli soup	Primary ingredients are broccoli, stock and milk or cream.^[8]^[9]^[10] Mass-produced commercial varieties of cream of broccoli soup are produced by various food manufacturers, such as the Campbell Soup Company.^[11]^[12]
	Cream of chicken soup	Mass-produced in a condensed soup form, various non-commercial and homemade variations also exist
	Cream of mushroom soup	A simple soup where a basic roux is thinned with cream or milk and then mushrooms and/or mushroom broth are added. In America, the Campbell Soup Company began producing its well-known condensed "Cream of Mushroom Soup" in 1934.^[13]
	Cream of spinach	With spinach as a main ingredient, additional ingredients can include onion, green onion, carrot, celery, tomatoes, potatoes, lemon juice, olive oil, seasonings, salt and pepper.^[14]^[15] Spinach soup is typically served hot, but can also be served as a cold soup.^[16]^[17]
	Cream of shrimp	Sometimes prepared as a cream soup, pictured is a shrimp chowder.
	Cream of tomato	Cream of tomato soup is made with tomatoes as the primary ingredient and cream or milk as an ingredient.^[18] It may be served hot or cold in a bowl, and may be made in a variety of ways.^[19]
	She-crab soup	A rich soup similar to a bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, a small amount of dry sherry added as it is plated.

Additional cream soups include cream of cauliflower, cream of fennel, cream of potato, cream of corn, cream of walnut, cream of roasted pumpkin, cream of celery and cream-of-anything soup.^[2]

Gallery

Cream of clams soup
Cream of corn soup
Cream of fava beans soup
Cream of potato soup
Cream of roasted pumpkin soup
Cream of rocoto soup
Cream of walnut soup

References

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^ ^a ^b Lam, Francis (March 5, 2011). "How to make cream-of-anything soup". Salon. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
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^ Danny Palmerlee (1 March 2007). South America on a Shoestring. Lonely Planet. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-74104-443-0.
^ A Complete Course in Canning. 1906.
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^ Gisslen, Wayne; Griffin, Mary Ellen (2006). Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-4716-6377-5 – via Google Books.
^ "Winning Recipe May Change President's Vote on Broccoli". Beaver County Times. October 30, 1991. p. C4. Retrieved September 8, 2014 – via Google News.
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^ Hoffman, S.; Wise, V. (2013). Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors. Workman Publishing Company. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-7611-3961-4. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
^ "The Fountain on Locust's Cream of Spinach Soup". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 12, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
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^ Herbig, Paul A. (1998). Handbook of Cross-Cultural Marketing. Binghamton, NY: International Business Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0789001542. Irish and Italians prefer creamy tomato soup, Germans want rice, and Colombians want spice.