The broth recipe and adaptations are great, and the lime, chive butter is as well. It really took me back to my days at elementary school, it was an old school Catholic school and the nuns made and sold hot lunches and they made a soup with a base so like this one, sometimes it would have rice and vegetables other times pasta in it, though the desert of choice was slices of their home made bread with their homemade chocolate frosting, heaven!
@cooking_the_books I say who cares. Half the time I forget to preheat my thermos. As long as what's in it tastes delicious, that's all u care about. Thanks Anna for your videos.
When my dad was sick with cancer, he had no appetite. One day, we were are at the cancer center at lunchtime so we went down to the cafeteria and got soup and sandwiches. Dad fell in love with the tomato soup. He drank 3 full styrofoam cups. I went back to the kitchen to talk to the cooks. It was just Campbells condensed tomato soup but instead of using water, they used V8 juice. They said cancer patients often had trouble keeping down solid food and by adding the V8, it was a way to bump up the nutrition of the canned tomato soup which they usually could keep down. He drank it at least 4 times a week for his remaining months. I still like to add it to my tomato soup when I crave a tomato soup & grilled cheese lunch.
Thank you for this information. My mom is in late-stage dementia and swallowing is becoming more challenging sometimes. It is making it harder to get her the right nutrition. I am going to use this idea. Also sending light and love for you and your dad.
@@mistythompson1398 hang in there. Its a hard road, but in the end of it your heart will know you did your best. Dads cancer was already terminal when they found it. At first they told us he had only a few weeks but he lived nearly a year and my siblings and I spent every minute we could with him and I'm thankful we had the foreknowledge so we could make every day count. 💗
We had those little numbered cookbooks! My Dad got one free every time he filled up with gas and then got the big binder when he had them all. This was in the '60's in Los Angeles. My sister and I wore out The Cookie Book (#16) and The Cake Book. The pages were stained and dog-eared. The binder, which was huge, fell apart, but I still have most of the little books.
My mom used to make my lunch and it was always something special. One of my favorites was mini kabobs made with slices of cheese, lunch meat, pickles and cherry tomatoes all skewered on tooth picks. Sometimes she would put them in a sandwich with cream cheese as the condiment and then she would cut them into little squares and skewer them with the toothpicks. All my lunches went into my Bobby Sherman lunch box!
Takes me back to grade school watching this. I had a RoyRogers metal lunchbox shaped like a covered wagon. My mother loved Roy Rogers so I think that’s why I had it. Broke the thermos that came with it quite soon after getting it, of course. I was waiting for you to wrap the sandwich and the peanut butter bar in wax paper. That’s how nostalgic this episode was for me 😊
I grew up in the country so I went to a country school (with no cafeteria). In grade 4, sometimes my mom would send a thermos filled with hot water and a hotdog plopped in it. The hotdog was cooked by lunchtime, and she gave me a piece of bread with ketchup as the bun. The days I had a hotdog for lunch were the days I was the envy of the whole class. That would have been in the '70s. Such a cute memory - thanks for sharing the thermos idea! I always love your content!
Lunch making Mom here! The trick to getting thermos foods to stay hottest for longest is to put water in a tea kettle, bring it to a boil, pour boiling water into the thermos while you prepare the rest of the lunch. Pour the boiling water out after several minutes and then pour your hot food into the thermos. You are essentially "pre-heating" the thermos. Food will stay warm for hours! Also, the lid serves as a bowl. You just pour your food into the lid and the spoon works a bit better 😊
I still remember my very first lunch as a first grader in 1975. Buddig beef sandwich on white bread, carrot sticks, and those lovely Italian plums that are only available just about this time of year. I can't even get them anymore. I remember it like it was yesterday--one of those scent memories.
@mmoretti, I can still find it at my local Wal-Mart. I use a whole little package on a sandwich with a slice of cheese. It's still really cheap and I like the ham on wheat bread with mustard, some lettuce and tomato. Add a cup of soup and that is a good lunch.
Our big days were Hot Dog Day on Thursdays, with hot dogs, fries and cake. Every other Friday was grilled cheese, choice of vegetarian vegetable or cream of tomato soup, and Jello.
Back in my parochial grade school days in the 60s, a hot lunch was 25 cents, including the milk. For that, we got the old school lunch by the cafeteria ladies that was actually cooked/baked. I loved the days when we had cherry crisp for dessert. No, we weren't rich. My dad worked in a factory and mom was a school bus driver here in Dayton, Ohio. I could have carried in my lunch, which would probably have been PBJ or baloney sandwich and maybe some cookies, since Mom was nuts for anything with sugar in it and baked a lot of cookies.
First grade (1955-56), my lunch box was a plasticy/vinyly, plaid, pouch bag but I think it had a little thermos. Mom would make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and tomato soup. I think we bought the little cartons of milk at school. We didn’t have a cafeteria so we ate at our desks. I can’t believe I remember the lunch bag!
As soon as you said the Tomato Bouillon soup tasted like Campbell’s vegetable soup I knew I HAD to make it. I tried it today and it’s delicious! It brought me back to being a kid with a bowl after school at my great aunt’s house. I’m definitely going to make it sometime with fun noodles and some peas and carrots. Thank you for showing this recipe!
Lol your face when you saw " simmered heart". Simmered chicken hearts are one of my favorite treats. My mom used to make chicken gizzard and heart soup because it was dirt cheap. We had no idea what we were eating but it was tender, and tasted like chicken. I had to be in my 20s before I realized what it was.😂
In the 80’s there was a diet where people ate a lot of cabbage soup. My mother made it often and the recipe called for V8 juice. It was a delicious soup. Just remembered that when you used V8 in your recipe.
Thought I'd share a funny story from my lunch yesterday. I havea bad back so my son made me lunch. I asked for a bread roll sandwich and add a slice of cheese. Then a big spoonful of potato salad too. I don't usually like cheese on my deli meat. My son brought me a roll with a slice of cheese and a big scoop of potato salad in it. I was so stunned. It was delicious!! But somehow, my meat and cheese sandwich became potato salad and cheese. Kids are amazing. He's 24. 😂
So happy to know that I am not the only one who enjoys (loves) the artwork in all vintage cookbooks. Thanks for sharing the little guy running at the bottom of the page!!! The graphic artist is a sweetheart for not leaving that area blank!!!
I once took a 1950’s cookbook page from an ad, it was either for vitamin enriched baby food or some kind of milk and the picture was a “housewife” winking and the caption read: “Boy, What A Good Mother I Am” so I framed it and my Mom was pretty amused and we had in on our 1950’s antique dining room hutch for years.
It was always a surprise opening up my lunchbox as a kid. Mom would mix it up quite frequently, but I remember my Thermos of Chicken Noodle soup on cold days. This video too me back to such a good time in my life. Thanks Anna. Oh and I LOVE bacon and cheese sandwiches! Yummmm
Currently recovering from dental surgery and I was so looking forward to your upload today! 🎉❤excited to enjoy this video while relaxing and recovering!
I have a ton of old recipe books, they are fun to look through. I grew up with liverwurst and mustard with lettuce sandwiches on homemade bread, Jello with a ton of carrots, celery, nuts, seeds, apples was our dessert. I still cook a lot of old time recipes but have changed up a lot of the ingredients to make it healthier. I also will never own a microwave or heat food in one. I've read so much about Microwave cooking and how it pretty much kills the nutrients of the food you cook in it. Scratch cooking with fresh ingredients is so much tastier and you avoid all the chemical and seed oil ingredients they put in food now a days.
Yay! I also keep v8 on hand just for making small amounts of tomato soup for a one-person household, it’s so versatile for all kinds of things! If I’m going to make a large pot of soup for a few days in winter, I get a large can of it as the base for things like beef & barley or chili. I LOVE when you show the pages and illustrations, I can screenshot those and it’s like bonus recipes! Thank you, Anna, this was so fun! 😌✨
I have the same bento box from FFF. I am looking for a thermos that can hold heat at least four hours. I was a soup nut as a kid and those old Aladdin thermos in the 80's seem to hold up on keeping it warm. Now I get the best of the best and my food is cold before I can get to it (so in otherwords...I still like soup for lunch). Bring back Aladdin lunch boxes with their thermoses!
My mom was such an amazing cook and always prepared a tasty lunch - we usually had homemade treats - a box of raisins or dried apricots, vegetables sticks with a little dip or peanut butter and often a thermos of homemade soup. So many good memories
I didn’t like the school’s hot lunch, so my mother packed my lunch every day. She was a phenomenal cook, and made some incredibly innovative lunches. I would get the occasional baloney sandwich, but the leftover steak sliced thin on bread with butter and mustard, or the leg of a fried chicken, or the painstakingly made cream cheese and olive sandwich were my favorites.
In grade school, every year I would get a new lunch box with a new (glass lined) thermos. Every year within the first 3 weeks of school starting, I would drop my lunch box in the way home from school. ☹️ Say good-bye to cold milk for the rest of the year.
Yup. My mother refused to even buy the thermos after 2nd grade. After that it was brown bags. The best are the metal insulated ones. Too bad they didn't know that back then.
This brings memories of when I was small and took my lunch box to school every day. We had an actual lunch box with the thermos inside. Mine was Tweety Bird. Thanks for sharing and you have a great day
If you properly prep your thermos by putting boiling water in it for 5-10 minutes first, stuff stays hot for at least 6 hours. Sometimes my daughter doesn’t eat all her lunch and whatever is in the thermos is still pretty warm when she gets home.
I ate a lot of pb and j or vienna sausage with mustard because mayo wouldn't stand up to southern weather. In the winter, we were excited to get soup or ravioli in our thermos.
Growing up my mom used to make this beef vegetable soup whose base was V8 juice. I still make it in the winter exactly how she does, but sometimes I want a quick version. I use a bit of beef bullion with the lower sodium V8, then add the veggies. It is so good and comforting. Now I want to add the alphabet too.
Hi i love lunchbox ideas as I never know what to put in it. Me myself and I cannot stand pb&j for lunch eww. Ham and cheese get old really quick so these help me out A LOT.
I admit i make a lot of sandwich fillings, chicken salad, eggs salad, tuna salad, or ham salad. Canned meats work great for these and it comes out cheaper than deli meat.
My friend actually got some of the collector binders at a yard sale, the original owner was like 90 and very excited to show us both all her favorite pictures, stories on finding different ones and even a little note with what edditions shes missing from the sets so if we wanna finish the collection its easy. Just a lovely experience. We were going to split them but felt wrong to break up a collection, plus while I do collect old cookbooks im more into finishing my Xerox Cookbook shelf lol
My dad canned his own tomato juice for years, from his home-grown tomatoes. It made the BEST soups! Vegetable soup, chili, you name it. Now he's passed, and I have to use store-bought, but it's still good, just not *quite* as good. 😊
I'd be happy to have this lunch any day of the work week. It's simplicity just makes it more desireable. Also the soup and the sandwich can be made without an oven, so even college kids could make it :) I cought the Lunch Box Chicken you just shown in the book and I think it would be a tasty addition to your next Lunch Box video ❤
I love the CAI cookbooks and have quite a collection. I still pick them up when I see them and always find homes for any duplicates. And I use them quite often!
If you pour boiling water in the thermos first, cover and let it sit for a few minutes, empty and add food; it will keep the food warmer longer since the container is hot already. 😊 I do the same thing with my tea pot and ceramic mugs.
I work at a resort with many restaurants, but I still prefer the simplicity and convenience of bringing my lunch to the office. Never had bacon in any sandwich except a BLO (bacon, lettuce, onion, I HATE tomatoes) Ironically I’m from an Ohio town called Reynoldsburg, and they call it ‘Home of the Tomato’.
I have done for years a very similar soup. The recipe is from “The Heritage of Southern Cooking” by Camille Glen. It was published in the 1980s. Her recipe includes a can of Campbell’s beef consommé, and I believe tomato juice - though I usually use V-8 because it’s what we usually have on hand. She also calls for a slice of onion, lemon, parsley, and a rib of celery (sorry 😂). It’s a good basic fast soup as you have discovered. And it’s really turned into one of our favorite soups. A really nice thing to do is to add the little cheese tortellini to it, or just simply sprinkle it with grated Parm. Really enjoyed this evening’s show. And I love the idea of the cheese and bacon sandwich. As always, thank you for sharing your day!
Anna, I love how your video today elicited such fond memories from your audience. We're all nostalgic for the simpler times of 3rd grade with a Speed Racer or Tarzan lunchbox, including a thermos of Mom's homemade beef-and-vegetable soup. Reading the comments section has me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I **LOVE** Aldi's Aisle of Shame, aka Special Buys! My stores (I have 6 Aldis in short driving distance) all sold out of thermos the minute it hit the shelves! I love V8!!! It makes soup zippier. MSG aka Accent was a popular add-in back then. My grandmother was a big fan of MSG. It didn't help her cooking, though. The cookies look great! The parchment paper was a good idea. Can you go wrong with bacon and cheese? No, no you can't. I'd add a slice of tomato in a separate bag. But I love tomato. YAY!!! I'm glad the thermos works. When my hubz and kids brought lunches, I threw in a fruit cup or a whole piece of fruit as well as a treat, a sandwich and something warm such as soup. CAI also made a card set ala 1970s card sets. Yeah, not a heart fan, myself. That orange color in the cookbook is very cheery. You're exactly right. Dads brought lunches in steel lunchboxes. Kids brought lunches in metal lunchboxes with cartoon characters or TV stars. Big kids brought paper bags if there was no cafeteria at the high school. So the cookies had to be sturdy. Have a great week. (I'm first?)
❤ Yep. Two are very nearby, one within walking distance, one 3.5 miles away. Two are in the next town, about 7 miles away. One is 8 miles away, over the border in the next state. The other is 12 miles away, also over the border. Obviously, the border isn't far. Then there's three in either direction except east, 25 miles or so.
I really enjoy all of your videos and your great personality, but this episode was a favorite for sure.Thank you for the time and care you put into these uploads. I so appreciate it - and you! :-)
Your voice is so calming and comforting! I know that sounds strange. 😂 I think I’m maybe a year older than you, born in ‘79. It’s crazy how much we have in common. I was that kid that was cooking and reading cook books and old handwritten recipes and I’ve never stopped. I collect cookbooks too and love when I get lucky and find ones with notes and handwritten recipes inside. I’m in SE Texas and recently found a vintage Cooking Clips binder at a junk shop full of saved recipes from vintage magazines and newspapers as well some handwritten recipes for hot dish…one on an old receipt!
I'm grateful for the tomato soup recipe especially. A real solution for those of us who ware DF or GF and finding an easy soup recipe was a struggle. I'm going to try this weekend!
The peanut police is Actually Mr. Peanut™ and his🧐monocle!! He's coming for ya. 🥜🧐 He's going to arrest you for only putting one delicious peanut snack in your lunch. Girl, I would have 2 or 3!!!! 😄
Crunchy peanut butter is da bomb for cookies (bars)! And the crunchy edges are the cook's payment for cooking 🙂 I think I'd prefer a grilled cheese n bacon sammich, even room temp would be fine I think... that soup is cool!
👀 Me, while simultaneously listening to you talk about the cookbook while trying to read the titles of the cookbooks on your shelf and hoping you'll do a cookbook tour some day. Excellent menu by the way. Great lunchbox memories!
Hi Anna! Thank you for this video! I remember my mom sending me to school with a thermos full of chicken noodle or tomato soup. Good times! I'm definitely going to make those peanut butter bars! Delish! Have a blessed week!❤
I have my dad's thermos from the 1950s but think it leaks. It's tall and has glass inside and remember dad used it mostly for coffee, but occasionally mom's homemade vegetable soup. I love meals from the 1950s because they're uncomplicated, wholesome and taste great. Food today imho, is over the top, fattening with too much gross fast food. I laughed out loud when you said skipping along with your lunchbox and pictured Spongebob skipping along flinging his lunchbox back and forth while singing, 'Lalalalala' Informative and great video as always.
Thank you Anna! This is a sweet video. It brought back fond memories of bringing my lunch to school. A thermos full of chicken noodle soup, sandwich and homemade cookies. Yum❤❤
So good to see you back in the swing! Simple recipes this time around, but look at the memories they brought up for people! It isn't about the complexity ...
I have a ton of the Culinary Arts Institute books - bought all at a flea market. Most not in the greatest shape. I haven’t cooked much from them. I have seen them in binders but they are always really costly that way. I think I spent 25 cents or a tiny bit more for most of them.
To keep your soup warmer for longer, you can pour boiling water into your thermos and let it sit in there while you cook/warm up your soup. Dump the water out when the soup is ready and then put the soup in your warmed thermos.
Biggest thing to keeping those containers hot we always boiled water put it in the thermos 1st sealed, let it sit couple minutes, preheat, if you will. Simple rinse & sit with hot water from sink should help also. . Amazing how cold the inside could be before you pour hot soup in. We had the short fat plastic ones. Did same, rinsed with hot water. When my mom hauled out so to say. She gave me my old thermos , used them for my husband's lunch at work.
I use v8 for my Italian based soups. Add a little to marinara sauce. my mom made peanut butter with brown sugar sandwiches,friut and delmonte pudding xups and tree sweet orange juice😊
That looks like a very good lunch. Many years ago, my ex husband was at a shooting match in the Swiss Alps, and I went along to take in the scenery. As the match was in a small town, we were lucky that the inn we were staying in offered all the meals - except one day. We had heart for lunch and tongue for dinner. 🤮 Luckily, we had picked up a few chips and things and were able to make it through that one day. I shudder remembering it.
@jewisley Wow, how unusual to go on a trip with an ex! Were you trying to rekindle the romance? The Swiss Alps is such a gorgeous setting for such a romantic endeavor!
Whenever I use a thermos I first warm it up with hot water. That way when you put the hot food in it the food doesn’t have to heat up the thermos. The water did that 👍🏼
Hey all! For those who are mentioning it - yes, I did preheat the thermos. I just didn’t show it on camera. 😊
Thanks for mentioning that. I would probably forget. Aldi sold a small green one a few years ago with the folding spoon in the lid. I have that one.
The top lid is your "soup bowl" to pour soup in from your thermos. 👍
The broth recipe and adaptations are great, and the lime, chive butter is as well. It really took me back to my days at elementary school, it was an old school Catholic school and the nuns made and sold hot lunches and they made a soup with a base so like this one, sometimes it would have rice and vegetables other times pasta in it, though the desert of choice was slices of their home made bread with their homemade chocolate frosting, heaven!
@cooking_the_books I say who cares. Half the time I forget to preheat my thermos. As long as what's in it tastes delicious, that's all u care about. Thanks Anna for your videos.
You have to preheat the thermos by filling it with hot water for 10 to 15 minutes. Dump the water and add your soup.
When my dad was sick with cancer, he had no appetite. One day, we were are at the cancer center at lunchtime so we went down to the cafeteria and got soup and sandwiches. Dad fell in love with the tomato soup. He drank 3 full styrofoam cups. I went back to the kitchen to talk to the cooks. It was just Campbells condensed tomato soup but instead of using water, they used V8 juice. They said cancer patients often had trouble keeping down solid food and by adding the V8, it was a way to bump up the nutrition of the canned tomato soup which they usually could keep down. He drank it at least 4 times a week for his remaining months. I still like to add it to my tomato soup when I crave a tomato soup & grilled cheese lunch.
I know this may sound odd, but I’m sending you and your dad a huge hug!
Thank you for this information. My mom is in late-stage dementia and swallowing is becoming more challenging sometimes. It is making it harder to get her the right nutrition. I am going to use this idea. Also sending light and love for you and your dad.
Hugs from a fellow caring-for-dad-with-cancer person. 💜
@@yolandaponkers1581 🤗 dad has gone on but I'll take that hug for the both of us 💗
@@mistythompson1398 hang in there. Its a hard road, but in the end of it your heart will know you did your best. Dads cancer was already terminal when they found it. At first they told us he had only a few weeks but he lived nearly a year and my siblings and I spent every minute we could with him and I'm thankful we had the foreknowledge so we could make every day count. 💗
We had those little numbered cookbooks! My Dad got one free every time he filled up with gas and then got the big binder when he had them all. This was in the '60's in Los Angeles. My sister and I wore out The Cookie Book (#16) and The Cake Book. The pages were stained and dog-eared. The binder, which was huge, fell apart, but I still have most of the little books.
My mom used to make my lunch and it was always something special. One of my favorites was mini kabobs made with slices of cheese, lunch meat, pickles and cherry tomatoes all skewered on tooth picks. Sometimes she would put them in a sandwich with cream cheese as the condiment and then she would cut them into little squares and skewer them with the toothpicks. All my lunches went into my Bobby Sherman lunch box!
Takes me back to grade school watching this. I had a RoyRogers metal lunchbox shaped like a covered wagon. My mother loved Roy Rogers so I think that’s why I had it. Broke the thermos that came with it quite soon after getting it, of course. I was waiting for you to wrap the sandwich and the peanut butter bar in wax paper. That’s how nostalgic this episode was for me 😊
I grew up in the country so I went to a country school (with no cafeteria). In grade 4, sometimes my mom would send a thermos filled with hot water and a hotdog plopped in it. The hotdog was cooked by lunchtime, and she gave me a piece of bread with ketchup as the bun. The days I had a hotdog for lunch were the days I was the envy of the whole class. That would have been in the '70s. Such a cute memory - thanks for sharing the thermos idea! I always love your content!
You have the most friendly and calm demeanor! I just put you on repeat while I work in the evenings because you keep me calm ❤
Oh thank you! 😊
Lunch making Mom here! The trick to getting thermos foods to stay hottest for longest is to put water in a tea kettle, bring it to a boil, pour boiling water into the thermos while you prepare the rest of the lunch. Pour the boiling water out after several minutes and then pour your hot food into the thermos. You are essentially "pre-heating" the thermos. Food will stay warm for hours! Also, the lid serves as a bowl. You just pour your food into the lid and the spoon works a bit better 😊
Awesome tip. Thanks! 🌞
I still remember my very first lunch as a first grader in 1975. Buddig beef sandwich on white bread, carrot sticks, and those lovely Italian plums that are only available just about this time of year. I can't even get them anymore. I remember it like it was yesterday--one of those scent memories.
Yes and I still get a hankering for the Buddig beef, but I never can find it
Budding beef. I can still find it at my market. Now, it's good as a creamed beef on toast.
@mmoretti, I can still find it at my local Wal-Mart. I use a whole little package on a sandwich with a slice of cheese. It's still really cheap and I like the ham on wheat bread with mustard, some lettuce and tomato. Add a cup of soup and that is a good lunch.
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Local stores carry it where I live but, for whatever reason, the small package is so expensive, I won’t buy it.
@@mmorettigiant eagle sells it in my area
Don’t ya just remember taking lunch to school, what a treat when you think about it now. Back then though you wanted to buy your lunch.
Some of us just wanted anything for lunch!
I always wanted to buy my lunch on sloppy Joe days. The memories....
Our big days were Hot Dog Day on Thursdays, with hot dogs, fries and cake. Every other Friday was grilled cheese, choice of vegetarian vegetable or cream of tomato soup, and Jello.
Back in my parochial grade school days in the 60s, a hot lunch was 25 cents, including the milk. For that, we got the old school lunch by the cafeteria ladies that was actually cooked/baked. I loved the days when we had cherry crisp for dessert. No, we weren't rich. My dad worked in a factory and mom was a school bus driver here in Dayton, Ohio. I could have carried in my lunch, which would probably have been PBJ or baloney sandwich and maybe some cookies, since Mom was nuts for anything with sugar in it and baked a lot of cookies.
First grade (1955-56), my lunch box was a plasticy/vinyly, plaid, pouch bag but I think it had a little thermos. Mom would make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and tomato soup. I think we bought the little cartons of milk at school. We didn’t have a cafeteria so we ate at our desks. I can’t believe I remember the lunch bag!
As soon as you said the Tomato Bouillon soup tasted like Campbell’s vegetable soup I knew I HAD to make it. I tried it today and it’s delicious! It brought me back to being a kid with a bowl after school at my great aunt’s house. I’m definitely going to make it sometime with fun noodles and some peas and carrots. Thank you for showing this recipe!
Lol your face when you saw " simmered heart". Simmered chicken hearts are one of my favorite treats. My mom used to make chicken gizzard and heart soup because it was dirt cheap. We had no idea what we were eating but it was tender, and tasted like chicken. I had to be in my 20s before I realized what it was.😂
My great grandma would heat up Campbell's chicken noodle soup and add chicken hearts to it. Oh it was yummy! Great memories!
I love chicken hearts and gizzards. I used to be able to buy a package of them at the grocery store, but I haven’t seen them in years, sigh……
It’s just a muscle, not so much an organ meat. A lot of people turn their nose up at it thinking it’s like liver or something though
What a lovely community of people are drawn to these videos.
When I was doing my student teaching I lived with my grandparents. My Grandmother would send me to school with a thermos of stuff cabbage for lunch.
For the thermos, I think I remember you should preheat the thermos liner with hot boiling water which, of course, you then pour out.😊
I found Campbell thermos old fashion and my grand children like their soup there with sandwiches. Great memories of mine also.
In the 80’s there was a diet where people ate a lot of cabbage soup. My mother made it often and the recipe called for V8 juice. It was a delicious soup. Just remembered that when you used V8 in your recipe.
Yes. The cabbage soup diet.
And it was tasty, if eventually boring.😋
My mom did this in the 90s! It was big in the WW community
Yes, V8 juice can really bump up the flavor in a lot of tomato based soups!
Thought I'd share a funny story from my lunch yesterday. I havea bad back so my son made me lunch. I asked for a bread roll sandwich and add a slice of cheese. Then a big spoonful of potato salad too. I don't usually like cheese on my deli meat. My son brought me a roll with a slice of cheese and a big scoop of potato salad in it. I was so stunned. It was delicious!! But somehow, my meat and cheese sandwich became potato salad and cheese. Kids are amazing. He's 24. 😂
Actually I would eat a sandwich made with mashed potatoes in rolls at holidays. 😊
@@paulabailey9791 my niece doesn't even eat the holiday food, just rolls with mashed potatoes. It must be good!
So happy to know that I am not the only one who enjoys (loves) the artwork in all vintage cookbooks. Thanks for sharing the little guy running at the bottom of the page!!! The graphic artist is a sweetheart for not leaving that area blank!!!
I once took a 1950’s cookbook page from an ad, it was either for vitamin enriched baby food or some kind of milk and the picture was a “housewife” winking and the caption read: “Boy, What A Good Mother I Am” so I framed it and my Mom was pretty amused and we had in on our 1950’s antique dining room hutch for years.
It was always a surprise opening up my lunchbox as a kid. Mom would mix it up quite frequently, but I remember my Thermos of Chicken Noodle soup on cold days. This video too me back to such a good time in my life. Thanks Anna. Oh and I LOVE bacon and cheese sandwiches! Yummmm
Currently recovering from dental surgery and I was so looking forward to your upload today! 🎉❤excited to enjoy this video while relaxing and recovering!
I hope you're feeling better soon! ❤
I have a ton of old recipe books, they are fun to look through. I grew up with liverwurst and mustard with lettuce sandwiches on homemade bread, Jello with a ton of carrots, celery, nuts, seeds, apples was our dessert. I still cook a lot of old time recipes but have changed up a lot of the ingredients to make it healthier. I also will never own a microwave or heat food in one. I've read so much about Microwave cooking and how it pretty much kills the nutrients of the food you cook in it. Scratch cooking with fresh ingredients is so much tastier and you avoid all the chemical and seed oil ingredients they put in food now a days.
Yay! I also keep v8 on hand just for making small amounts of tomato soup for a one-person household, it’s so versatile for all kinds of things! If I’m going to make a large pot of soup for a few days in winter, I get a large can of it as the base for things like beef & barley or chili.
I LOVE when you show the pages and illustrations, I can screenshot those and it’s like bonus recipes!
Thank you, Anna, this was so fun! 😌✨
I have the same bento box from FFF. I am looking for a thermos that can hold heat at least four hours. I was a soup nut as a kid and those old Aladdin thermos in the 80's seem to hold up on keeping it warm. Now I get the best of the best and my food is cold before I can get to it (so in otherwords...I still like soup for lunch). Bring back Aladdin lunch boxes with their thermoses!
i came to tell you, I ADORE YOUR NAME!! 'COOKING THE BOOKS' ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!
My mom was such an amazing cook and always prepared a tasty lunch - we usually had homemade treats - a box of raisins or dried apricots, vegetables sticks with a little dip or peanut butter and often a thermos of homemade soup. So many good memories
This is a good tip adding the V8... always open to new suggestions. We love your videos.
I didn’t like the school’s hot lunch, so my mother packed my lunch every day. She was a phenomenal cook, and made some incredibly innovative lunches. I would get the occasional baloney sandwich, but the leftover steak sliced thin on bread with butter and mustard, or the leg of a fried chicken, or the painstakingly made cream cheese and olive sandwich were my favorites.
I'm making the soup. I'm making the butter for my next grilled cheese sandwich
THAT is a great idea!
In grade school, every year I would get a new lunch box with a new (glass lined) thermos. Every year within the first 3 weeks of school starting, I would drop my lunch box in the way home from school. ☹️ Say good-bye to cold milk for the rest of the year.
Yup. My mother refused to even buy the thermos after 2nd grade. After that it was brown bags. The best are the metal insulated ones. Too bad they didn't know that back then.
This brings memories of when I was small and took my lunch box to school every day. We had an actual lunch box with the thermos inside. Mine was Tweety Bird. Thanks for sharing and you have a great day
If you properly prep your thermos by putting boiling water in it for 5-10 minutes first, stuff stays hot for at least 6 hours. Sometimes my daughter doesn’t eat all her lunch and whatever is in the thermos is still pretty warm when she gets home.
I ate a lot of pb and j or vienna sausage with mustard because mayo wouldn't stand up to southern weather. In the winter, we were excited to get soup or ravioli in our thermos.
Growing up my mom used to make this beef vegetable soup whose base was V8 juice. I still make it in the winter exactly how she does, but sometimes I want a quick version. I use a bit of beef bullion with the lower sodium V8, then add the veggies. It is so good and comforting. Now I want to add the alphabet too.
I use it a base for minestrone!
I sometimes sent a thermos of chicken noodle soup with my daughter for her lunches when she was in elementary school. I think she remembers that.
Hi i love lunchbox ideas as I never know what to put in it. Me myself and I cannot stand pb&j for lunch eww. Ham and cheese get old really quick so these help me out A LOT.
Yes I love the “vintage” books ones I grew up cooking with mom
I admit i make a lot of sandwich fillings, chicken salad, eggs salad, tuna salad, or ham salad. Canned meats work great for these and it comes out cheaper than deli meat.
I love that a sandwich can be so simple yet so good. You've convinced me that when I publish my cookbook, it must be illustrated like the old days😊
YES I'd love to see a new cookbook with some old school illustrations! 😍
All about the joy! Everything looked really good for a special lunch! 😊
I swear, simple is always the best ❤️❤️ love these recipes
My friend actually got some of the collector binders at a yard sale, the original owner was like 90 and very excited to show us both all her favorite pictures, stories on finding different ones and even a little note with what edditions shes missing from the sets so if we wanna finish the collection its easy. Just a lovely experience. We were going to split them but felt wrong to break up a collection, plus while I do collect old cookbooks im more into finishing my Xerox Cookbook shelf lol
I always enjoy your videos. I forgot I had this recipe book in my stash, pulled it out to plan some lunches for next week. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked this one! Thanks so much for watching. 😊
Ooo! Anna, you're STANDING! Congrats on the post-surgical progress!
My dad canned his own tomato juice for years, from his home-grown tomatoes. It made the BEST soups! Vegetable soup, chili, you name it. Now he's passed, and I have to use store-bought, but it's still good, just not *quite* as good. 😊
Thank you!! I just live these 5os yos and 7os features. 💟☮️
I’m so glad that your Dad 13:44 was able to tolerate and enjoy some soup. It’s so hard not being able to eat. Im so sorry for your loss.
Can’t wait to find this cookbook…I love lunch! Bonus points for the bento!
I'd be happy to have this lunch any day of the work week. It's simplicity just makes it more desireable. Also the soup and the sandwich can be made without an oven, so even college kids could make it :) I cought the Lunch Box Chicken you just shown in the book and I think it would be a tasty addition to your next Lunch Box video ❤
Your channel is charming. I wait eagerly for each episode on Sunday afternoon! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! 😊
I would really like to make that sandwich after watching this! It sounded so nice.
Love the apron/shirt combo today.
I love the CAI cookbooks and have quite a collection. I still pick them up when I see them and always find homes for any duplicates. And I use them quite often!
If you pour boiling water in the thermos first, cover and let it sit for a few minutes, empty and add food; it will keep the food warmer longer since the container is hot already. 😊 I do the same thing with my tea pot and ceramic mugs.
I work at a resort with many restaurants, but I still prefer the simplicity and convenience of bringing my lunch to the office. Never had bacon in any sandwich except a BLO (bacon, lettuce, onion, I HATE tomatoes) Ironically I’m from an Ohio town called Reynoldsburg, and they call it ‘Home of the Tomato’.
I’m from Hilliard. Love tomatoes! Go Bucks!
Anna always warm up yr thermos with hot water before filling it with your food. Good vid! 😊
Exactly! Or chill with ice water for cold items
Hi there! I did but didn’t show it. 😁
I enjoy your videos so much. The combination of the great content and your lovely personality is just perfect.
Glad you enjoy it! 😊
I have done for years a very similar soup. The recipe is from “The Heritage of Southern Cooking” by Camille Glen. It was published in the 1980s. Her recipe includes a can of Campbell’s beef consommé, and I believe tomato juice - though I usually use V-8 because it’s what we usually have on hand. She also calls for a slice of onion, lemon, parsley, and a rib of celery (sorry 😂). It’s a good basic fast soup as you have discovered. And it’s really turned into one of our favorite soups. A really nice thing to do is to add the little cheese tortellini to it, or just simply sprinkle it with grated Parm. Really enjoyed this evening’s show. And I love the idea of the cheese and bacon sandwich. As always, thank you for sharing your day!
Anna, I love how your video today elicited such fond memories from your audience. We're all nostalgic for the simpler times of 3rd grade with a Speed Racer or Tarzan lunchbox, including a thermos of Mom's homemade beef-and-vegetable soup.
Reading the comments section has me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I **LOVE** Aldi's Aisle of Shame, aka Special Buys! My stores (I have 6 Aldis in short driving distance) all sold out of thermos the minute it hit the shelves!
I love V8!!! It makes soup zippier. MSG aka Accent was a popular add-in back then. My grandmother was a big fan of MSG. It didn't help her cooking, though.
The cookies look great! The parchment paper was a good idea.
Can you go wrong with bacon and cheese? No, no you can't. I'd add a slice of tomato in a separate bag. But I love tomato.
YAY!!! I'm glad the thermos works.
When my hubz and kids brought lunches, I threw in a fruit cup or a whole piece of fruit as well as a treat, a sandwich and something warm such as soup.
CAI also made a card set ala 1970s card sets.
Yeah, not a heart fan, myself.
That orange color in the cookbook is very cheery.
You're exactly right. Dads brought lunches in steel lunchboxes. Kids brought lunches in metal lunchboxes with cartoon characters or TV stars. Big kids brought paper bags if there was no cafeteria at the high school. So the cookies had to be sturdy.
Have a great week.
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I’m jealous! Six ALDis? As far as I know we’ve only got one in the entire state of Vermont, and it’s more than 2 hours away! ❤🇺🇸
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Yep. Two are very nearby, one within walking distance, one 3.5 miles away. Two are in the next town, about 7 miles away. One is 8 miles away, over the border in the next state. The other is 12 miles away, also over the border. Obviously, the border isn't far.
Then there's three in either direction except east, 25 miles or so.
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If you don't mind, what city are you in? I'd move there just for all those Aldi's everywhere.
This is so nostalgic!
At one time I had several of those Culinary Arts cookbooks
I really enjoy all of your videos and your great personality, but this episode was a favorite for sure.Thank you for the time and care you put into these uploads. I so appreciate it - and you! :-)
I love that... "Sturdy Cookie". Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching! ❤️
I'm ready for soup season!
We like our bacon and cheese sandwiches grilled with a cup of tomato soup of course!
At 19:11 "...I'm not judging anybody who eats that..." She says with a slight tremble of horror in her voice.😂😂😂 Oh, Anna. You crack me up.
Is there anything more comforting than a soup and sandwich meal!
Your voice is so calming and comforting! I know that sounds strange. 😂 I think I’m maybe a year older than you, born in ‘79. It’s crazy how much we have in common. I was that kid that was cooking and reading cook books and old handwritten recipes and I’ve never stopped. I collect cookbooks too and love when I get lucky and find ones with notes and handwritten recipes inside. I’m in SE Texas and recently found a vintage Cooking Clips binder at a junk shop full of saved recipes from vintage magazines and newspapers as well some handwritten recipes for hot dish…one on an old receipt!
I'm grateful for the tomato soup recipe especially. A real solution for those of us who ware DF or GF and finding an easy soup recipe was a struggle. I'm going to try this weekend!
So glad you found it useful! 😊
The peanut police is Actually Mr. Peanut™ and his🧐monocle!! He's coming for ya. 🥜🧐 He's going to arrest you for only putting one delicious peanut snack in your lunch. Girl, I would have 2 or 3!!!! 😄
Crunchy peanut butter is da bomb for cookies (bars)! And the crunchy edges are the cook's payment for cooking 🙂 I think I'd prefer a grilled cheese n bacon sammich, even room temp would be fine I think... that soup is cool!
V8 is great in soups!!!❤
👀 Me, while simultaneously listening to you talk about the cookbook while trying to read the titles of the cookbooks on your shelf and hoping you'll do a cookbook tour some day. Excellent menu by the way. Great lunchbox memories!
I have that little book! I am so delighted to see you making recipes from it. :)
I love these receioes!! Thankyou ❤
Made the soup and sandwich. Both easy and very delicious. Thanks Anna ❤🎉
Glad you enjoyed them! 😁
Hi Anna! Thank you for this video! I remember my mom sending me to school with a thermos full of chicken noodle or tomato soup. Good times! I'm definitely going to make those peanut butter bars! Delish! Have a blessed week!❤
That was a very satisfying thwack!! making peanut butter bars. 😂😂
I have my dad's thermos from the 1950s but think it leaks. It's tall and has glass inside and remember dad used it mostly for coffee, but occasionally mom's homemade vegetable soup. I love meals from the 1950s because they're uncomplicated, wholesome and taste great. Food today imho, is over the top, fattening with too much gross fast food. I laughed out loud when you said skipping along with your lunchbox and pictured Spongebob skipping along flinging his lunchbox back and forth while singing, 'Lalalalala' Informative and great video as always.
Thank you Anna! This is a sweet video. It brought back fond memories of bringing my lunch to school. A thermos full of chicken noodle soup, sandwich and homemade cookies. Yum❤❤
I had that cookbook! Good recipes!
I love that bento box. It's so cute and functional!
It's great! It came as part of a Fab Fit Fun box several years ago. I linked a similar one as I'm not sure this exact bento box is still available.
Hi Anna ! Your packed lunch looks so good ! The culinary Arts Institute has a cookbook Encyclopedia cookbook from 1950 !! Great video!!
Love these cookbooks! I need to find this one :)
I love a grilled cheese sandwich w bacon and jalapeños ❤ Love ya and all of your videos ❤
Your channel is one of my top 5 favorites!
Yay! Thank you!😊
So good to see you back in the swing! Simple recipes this time around, but look at the memories they brought up for people! It isn't about the complexity ...
I have a ton of the Culinary Arts Institute books - bought all at a flea market. Most not in the greatest shape. I haven’t cooked much from them. I have seen them in binders but they are always really costly that way. I think I spent 25 cents or a tiny bit more for most of them.
To keep your soup warmer for longer, you can pour boiling water into your thermos and let it sit in there while you cook/warm up your soup. Dump the water out when the soup is ready and then put the soup in your warmed thermos.
Cool Anna!
So warm and homey. Enjoyed as usual. Loved it!
Thanks so much! ❤
Hiya,
Your videos are so fun to watch!
Luv ya gal!
Biggest thing to keeping those containers hot we always boiled water put it in the thermos 1st sealed, let it sit couple minutes, preheat, if you will. Simple rinse & sit with hot water from sink should help also. . Amazing how cold the inside could be before you pour hot soup in. We had the short fat plastic ones. Did same, rinsed with hot water. When my mom hauled out so to say. She gave me my old thermos , used them for my husband's lunch at work.
I have same thermos from aldi. It seemed like soup stayed warm until mid shift at work. 4 hours in.😊
No issues with the V8 juice for me lol. I use it instead of water when I make veggie soup or beef stew.😊
I use v8 for my Italian based soups. Add a little to marinara sauce. my mom made peanut butter with brown sugar sandwiches,friut and delmonte pudding xups and tree sweet orange juice😊
That looks like a very good lunch. Many years ago, my ex husband was at a shooting match in the Swiss Alps, and I went along to take in the scenery. As the match was in a small town, we were lucky that the inn we were staying in offered all the meals - except one day. We had heart for lunch and tongue for dinner. 🤮 Luckily, we had picked up a few chips and things and were able to make it through that one day. I shudder remembering it.
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Wow, how unusual to go on a trip with an ex! Were you trying to rekindle the romance? The Swiss Alps is such a gorgeous setting for such a romantic endeavor!
Whenever I use a thermos I first warm it up with hot water. That way when you put the hot food in it the food doesn’t have to heat up the thermos. The water did that 👍🏼
I did warm it up but didn't show it on camera.
I love your videos, you give me such good ideas for new things, thank you so much