Anyone here giving advice on tomato soup making

I used the tinned Napolina plum tomatoes for my trial run - worked fine. I usually buy cheaper ones but thought the extra might be worth it. Tomatoes are packed in, relatively little juice.
16 cans waiting for Big Soup Day!

Does anyone recommend any particular variety of tomatoes? Or just use any ? I only ever made it once and it was pretty gross. Sometime later someone suggested it may have been the tomato variety.

Quite often in the tinned aisle of Asda they have large tins (catering) size of tomatoes which are good for batch cooking.

I'm late to the party but I was going to suggest adding potato, as many years ago I used to make this for my children. It was a recipe from a book written for babies & children but I lost it (probably when moving house ) and so I don't remember it exactly. I do know it was simple & delicious & had onions, fresh tomatoes and potatoes, but for the life of me I can't remember the full recipe or the title of the book/author . It had some lovely little recipes in for weaning babies and the lady who wrote it used to add her little girl's reactions to them too. I wish I still had it.

I used to love heinz tomato soup but find it to sweet these days

Glad to hear it worked out okay in the end! I make soup most weekends, but I rarely make tomato because I find it a bit of a faff.

SUCCESS I’ve just added milk and creme fraiche and it’s delicious there’s enough now in the freezer for a couple of days must eat it with garlic bread yum yum.

Thank you everyone for your ideas you’re a great bunch ??

Decant the tin straight into a bowl or mug and microwave with plastic loose cover in case you forget about it and it boils over.

ginny

I tin chopped tomatoes
1 tin carrots
1 tin baked beans
1/2 pt veg. stock
1 pickled onion.
Put everything in a saucepan, blitz and heat.

Delicious

It's brilliant. The only recipe I use for tom soup.

I had to make tomato soup as part of my cookery O Level.

I managed to surreptitiously pour a can of Heinz in the pan.

I also used bought pastry instead of making my own.

Shocking, I was!

Is the soup too sweet because you put too much sugar in it, or because the tomatoes were sweet in themselves?

If it is the first reason, I would add more tomatoes and boil the soup up again. If not, vinegar or lemon juice might help, but there again might not.

You could try boiling a whole peeled large potato in the soup then discarding the potato. This trick works with soup that is too salty, but I have never tried it with soup that was too sweet.

I added anchovies and basil to mine. I don’t like it too sweet. Guess Worcester sauce is similar.

V3ra ???

Many years ago I spent an afternoon making cream of chicken soup, carefully following a recipe.
My husband declared it was, "Lovely, just like the real thing out of a tin." ?

Success (I think) I’ve added a potato, basil and creme fraiche, the proof will be in further tasting today otherwise as mentionioned by another Gransnet in a previous post it’ll be going down the loo and never to be made ever again. I think I’ll be opening a tin in future even although I had much fun in preparing the home made stuff, not to be repeated

Urmstongran

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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I’m with you on that! I love to make soup, but Heinz tomato has a taste I love.
If I’m making tomato soup I roast the tomatoes with red peppers.

DH always adds grated nutmeg to his

Our greenhouse is being delivered next week it cost a small fortune!

I love Heinz tomato soup

Urmstongran, I think I posted about it on here. DH said "I'd like to say I like it but I don't"!

Calistemon

multicolourswapshop I'm not sure why it should be sweet, but try adding Worcester sauce.

Otherwise do what I did when I made cucumber soup with a glut of cucumbers from the greenhouse. Despite following a recipe, using fresh ingedients, lots of hard work and tlc, it tasted bitter so I poured it down the loo.

That really made me laugh Cali!
Reminds me of my mum, years ago, saying to me about her neighbour ‘spends hours in his greenhouse and for the hundreds of pounds it must have cost he could have bought TONS of tomatoes’.

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nadateturbe

Shinamae

Urmstongran

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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I’m with you ?

Sprinkled with grated parmesan

Ooh. Posh too! ?

nadateturbe

Shinamae

Urmstongran

Personally I like to open a tin of Heinz and pour it into a pan.
#lazygran
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I’m with you ?

Sprinkled with grated parmesan

Me too (ready grated for what that is worth)

Try just one onion. You can always add a little brown sugar if you like your soup sweet.Keep tasting throughout cooking is the only way to get what you find is to your taste.

multicolourswapshop I'm not sure why it should be sweet, but try adding Worcester sauce.

Otherwise do what I did when I made cucumber soup with a glut of cucumbers from the greenhouse. Despite following a recipe, using fresh ingedients, lots of hard work and tlc, it tasted bitter so I poured it down the loo.

My finest hour with tomato soup was when I removed the weight from the pressure cooker too soon. A very tall friend who was visiting wiped the soup off the ceiling for me. Delicious - not!
Seriously, my late uncle, a great soup maker, used to add a smidgen of creme fraiche when serving it. Like all his other soups, it was excellent.