Baked Potato Soup by Suzanne McMinn
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Recipe type: soups,main dish
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 6
 
This soup is like eating a loaded baked potato from a soup bowel. It leads itself well to modifying and no matter how you make it your dinner table will have a hearty warming meal on it whenever it you make it.
Ingredients
  • 4 large baking potatoes
  • 10 strips of peppered bacon
  • ⅔ cup butter
  • ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 7 cups milk
  • 1 cup cheese, shredded (cheddar or pepper jack or whatever you like!)
  • 8 ounces sour cream
  • ¾ teaspoon seasoned salt
Instructions
  1. Bake potatoes; cool, peel, and cut up.
  2. While potatoes are baking, fry bacon. Cool and crumble.
  3. In a large soup pot, melt butter.
  4. Add flour and chopped onion.
  5. Once butter/flour/onion mixture thickens and bubbles, add the milk, cheese, sour cream, potatoes, and seasoned salt.
  6. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  7. Stir in crumbled bacon.
  8. Serve immediately.
  9. Note: If you use regular bacon, add ½ teaspoon of coarse ground pepper. Or, add some coarse ground pepper even if you do use peppered bacon. As much as I love this soup, this soup loves pepper!
Recipe by Rural North Carolina at https://wokokon.com/baked-potato-soup-by-suzanne-mcminn/