CREAM OF ZUCCHINI SOUP (Otherwise Known as Alligator Soup)

Name: CREAM OF ZUCCHINI SOUP (Otherwise Known as Alligator Soup)
Ingredients: Step 1:; 3 c. sliced zucchini; 1 Tbsp. instant onion or 1/4 c. fresh onion; 1/2 tsp. parsley flakes; 1/2 c. water; 1/2 tsp. seasoned salt (optional); 2 tsp. chicken stock base or 2 chicken bouillon cubes; Step 2:; 2 Tbsp. butter; 1/8 tsp. pepper; 1/4 tsp. Beau Monde (optional); 1/2 c. milk; 1/2 c. light cream; 2 Tbsp. flour; 1/8 tsp. m.s.g. (optional)

Karen Mulcahy; Susan Carlson

Ingredients

Step 1:
3 c. sliced zucchini
1 Tbsp. instant onion or 1/4 c. fresh onion
1/2 tsp. parsley flakes
1/2 c. water
1/2 tsp. seasoned salt (optional)
2 tsp. chicken stock base or 2 chicken bouillon cubes
Step 2:
2 Tbsp. butter
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. Beau Monde (optional)
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. light cream
2 Tbsp. flour
1/8 tsp. m.s.g. (optional)

Method

Cook with 1 bouillon cube until tender and a small amount of water is left. Puree in blender. Good for freezing at this point.
Mix dry ingredients with second bouillon cube. Add butter and melt. Add milk and cream. Stir with wire whisk and simmer until thickened. Stir in zucchini from Step 1. Serve with dollop of sour cream and croutons.

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Recipe is printed in two numbered steps, each with its own ingredient block. The Step 2 method is not on this page; the recipe carries on to the next page. No contributor credit appears on this page. Conclusion of CREAM OF ZUCCHINI SOUP begun on page 12 (the Step 2 method). Two contributor names printed.

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Provenance. Darrell Anderson Culinary Archives, item WSCA-DAA-LB-U11, from the Misc: Loose Books photographic survey, frames image00740–image00906. Presented to a "Dave Anderson" — the flyleaf inscription reads "DEC. 2-82? TO DAVE ANDERSON HAPPY COOKING" over a signature that is not legible — and found among Darrell Anderson's loose books; the record does not claim the two names are the same man. No archival box label was photographed. Digitised, transcribed, index cross-checked and quantity-audited on 24 August 2026. The images here are web-sized derivatives at 1400 px on the long edge; the preservation masters are untouched in the archive. One frame, image00842, is a pixel-identical retake of image00841 and is kept in the page list as evidence of the retake, with its two recipes counted once. The book's own eight-page index was transcribed separately and used as an external checklist: 309 index entries against the transcribed corpus. 260 matched directly, 24 did not and were each re-opened against the photograph, and 7 of those turned out to be present under a title the index page had clipped. 17 recipes are genuinely absent — printed in the book, but sitting in the unexposed or out-of-frame part of a bad photograph; they are listed in the bundle's RESCAN-REPORT.md and would be recovered by re-shooting 11 frames. Separately, a 25-recipe sample was re-read field by field: 181 ingredient lines compared, 149 of them carrying an explicit quantity, all 149 correct, none invented.

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