Cream of Celery Soup

Name: Cream of Celery Soup
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 12 , celery ribs, chopped; 1 pound, russet potatoes, peeled, quartered, and sliced thin; 2 , onions, chopped; 2 tablespoons, sugar; 2 teaspoons, dried sage; , Salt and pepper; 2 tablespoons, all-purpose flour; 6 cups, chicken broth; 1 , bay leaf; 1/2 cup, heavy cream

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2013

Side Dishes

Vegetables

Soups

Canned cream of celery soup has scant evidence of its namesake vegetable.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1 hour

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Canned cream of celery soup has scant evidence of its namesake vegetable. To make our homemade version worthy of the name, we use a generous 12 ribs of celery. Sage, bay, and salt and pepper season the soup, and sugar rounds out the flavor....

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