Campbells green pea soup

Green bean casserole is an American baked dish consisting primarily of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french fried onions. It is a popular side dish for Thanksgiving dinners in the United States and campbells green pea soup been described as iconic. The recipe was created in 1955 by Dorcas Reilly at the Campbell Soup Company.

Variations on the dish include broccoli casserole, using a different creamed soup variety, or using sauteed onions instead of deep-fried ones. Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom flavored soup variety was created in 1934 and was the first of the company’s soups to be marketed as a sauce as well as a soup. It became so widely used as casserole filler in recipes for the hotdish recipes popular in Minnesota that it was sometimes referred to as “Lutheran binder. 1955 while working in the home economics department at the Campbell’s Soup Company. It was called “Green Bean Bake” when the recipe began being printed on soup cans. Initially the dish did not test well within the company but, in part because of Reilly’s persistence, eventually earned a reputation for being “the ultimate comfort food. Wine called it iconic, and Good Housekeeping said that “few dishes are as iconic” as the green bean casserole.

It was originally marketed as an everyday side dish but became popular for Thanksgiving dinners in the 1960s after Campbell’s placed the recipe on the can’s label. The recipe popularized the combination of the soup with green beans. Folklorist Lucy Long in 2007 noted that its inclusion on Thanksgiving dinner tables crosses ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious differences. The recipe, which hasn’t changed, calls for green beans, mushroom soup, milk, soy sauce, ground black pepper, and french fried onions. Multiple similar recipes have been developed that “update” or “upgrade” the original recipe to use fresh beans, homemade cream sauce, and fresh mushrooms as the convenience-food based recipes of the 1950s and 1960s have become less fashionable, but according to culinary historian Shapiro, the green bean casserole remains popular for Thanksgiving for reasons of nostalgia.

In November of 2002, Reilly, representing Campbell’s, donated the original recipe card to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. The donation was followed by a meal featuring the dish. Green Bean Casserole: The Logic of a Midwestern Foodways Aesthetic”. The Origins of the Mysterious Green Bean Casserole”. Dorcas Reilly, Creator of the Classic American Green-Bean Casserole, Dies at 92″.

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