Cheddar Cheese Soup

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By Olga Massov

This flavor-packed, filling crockery is made with pantry staples and frugal vegetables, specified arsenic carrot, bulb and celery, and a generous magnitude of crisp cheddar cheese. Assistant recipes exertion Olga Massov was introduced to this crockery from glassmaker Simon Pearce by her husband’s family, who utilized to walk Thanksgiving successful Quechee, Vermont, wherever Pearce is based. Massov tracked down the look successful the cookbook the institution produced, and it became her Thanksgiving paper stalwart. The crockery is rich, truthful a tiny serving goes a agelong mode arsenic a commencement to a vacation meal.

Adapted from “A Way of Living” by Pia and Simon Pearce (Simon Pearce, 2009).

Ingredients

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Servings: 8-12 (makes 8 cups)

2 mean carrots (6 ounces total), coarsely grated
2 ample stalks celery (4 ounces total), finely chopped (reserve the leaves)
1 instrumentality (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter
1 tiny yellowish bulb (5 ounces), finely diced
1 spoon finely chopped caller thyme oregon 1/2 spoon dried
1 bay leaf
1/2 cupful all-purpose flour
4 cups no-salt-added chickenhearted oregon rootlike broth, hot
3 cups (12 ounces) coarsely grated extra-sharp cheddar cheese, preferably from Vermont
1 cupful half-and-half
Fine brackish (optional)
Freshly cracked achromatic pepper
Fresh flat-leaf parsley oregon thyme, for serving (optional)

Nutritional Facts

(3/4 cup), based connected 12

Calories
240
Fat
19 g
Saturated Fat
12 g
Carbohydrates
9 g
Sodium
224 mg
Cholesterol
60 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “A Way of Living” by Pia and Simon Pearce (Simon Pearce, 2009).

Tested by Olga Massov and Ann Maloney.

Published November 8, 2023

Updated March 17, 2026