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Great Recipe. Before adding the cream, flour, milk mixture I put the veggies and stock in the Vitamix on the hot soup settings for a minute to pur\u00e9e. Then I put it back in the soup pot and added the flour, milk, and cream mixture for thickening. <\/p>
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This is the best soup EVER, even without bacon and cheese. I have to make it again today because we can't get enough! I do recommend a little more chicken bullion. My son is sick with bronchitis and this is perfect, according to him. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Rating","ratingValue":5,"worstRating":1,"bestRating":5}},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Review","datePublished":"2010-05-03","author":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Person","name":"Kimbra76"},"reviewBody":"I completely cut the salt from the recipe - it doesn't need any with the bacon, cheese and bouillon added. And I added garlic. 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