# Help me make cheese soup, please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098 "2004-11-16T19:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/1 "2004-11-16T19:11:16Z")
I’ve had beer-cheese soup in restaurants and love it. I’d like to make my own. Any cheese soup experts out there? I’m thinking of winging it with: onions, celery, garlic, chicken broth, half and half and cheddar and monerey jack cheese. Oh, and beer I guess. Anybody have a good recipe to share? ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/2 "2004-11-16T20:15:16Z")
Not an expert - but the recipes I have seen always include flour. Otherwise I am afraid you will have a big lumpy mess on your hands. Cook veggies in small amount of butter - remove veggies and set aside - reserve the liquids. To the liquids, add flour and chicken stock - heat til thickened. Add the veggies,the beer and the cheese(grated) - cook all about 20 minutes or so. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/3 "2004-11-16T20:46:46Z")
There’s a cheese soup in the Lowfat Moosewood Cookbook that has no flour; it relies on potatoes instead, but yes, you definitely need some starch to keep the cheese from getting globby. If anyone’s interested in that recipe, I can post it later, but while it’s awesome, it’s all good for you and stuff, so it’s not the sort of thing the OP’s looking for, I’m pretty sure. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/4 "2004-11-16T21:31:42Z")
blah! I did the saute part with onions and such, and I’ve totally run out of steam. Now I don’t feel like I have the energy to finish. I guess I’d rather be the type to have soup served to me than the maker of soup. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/5 "2004-11-17T00:18:24Z")
here’s a recipe I found: [bavarian beer cheese soup](http://www.recipezaar.com/22344) ---
**Author:** ![gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gentle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-cheese-soup-please/275098/6 "2004-11-17T01:58:04Z")
> [@indecisive1](#): > > I’ve had beer-cheese soup in restaurants and love it. I’d like to make my own. Any cheese soup experts out there? > > I’m thinking of winging it with: onions, celery, garlic, chicken broth, half and half and cheddar and monerey jack cheese. Oh, and beer I guess. > > Anybody have a good recipe to share? Dunno about the beer, but Alton Brown [made a yummy-looking cheese soup](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_28890,00.html) in an episode of _Good Eats_, that heavy-handedly goofy food programme that redeems itself through the quality of its recipes and its scientific, pragmatic approach to cooking. (Could somebody please inform Alton that in this universe the correct pronunciation of “Worcestershire” is _not_ “wishter-sheer”?)