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Household Hints & Help

raccoon

(31,458 posts) Sat Dec 26, 2015, 10:10 AM Dec 2015

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Did Campbell's soup cans used to be bigger?

Reason I ask, I'm using a recipe from a 1979 cookbook. It calls
for 1 can of cream of mushroom soup.

Do I need to use more than one can?

I believe soup cans used to be bigger. I know there are other brands besides Campbell's but I think that's a pretty good yardstick to use.

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Did Campbell's soup cans used to be bigger? (Original Post) raccoon Dec 2015 OP

Good question... lamp_shade Dec 2015 #1

I think by an ounce or so... I'd still go with the original quantities, though... hlthe2b Dec 2015 #2

I have a cookbook from that era that says 10 3/4 ounce can of Camp. Soup DawgHouse Jan 2016 #3

lamp_shade

(15,092 posts)

1. Good question...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sat Dec 26, 2015, 11:40 AM

Dec 2015

http://just-thinkin.net/2010/12/honey-i-shrunk-the-groceries/

hlthe2b

(106,379 posts)

2. I think by an ounce or so... I'd still go with the original quantities, though...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sat Dec 26, 2015, 12:24 PM

Dec 2015

Most of those recipes had so much in them, I'd doubt you'd notice a small decrease in one ingredient over another.

DawgHouse

(4,019 posts)

3. I have a cookbook from that era that says 10 3/4 ounce can of Camp. Soup

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sat Jan 16, 2016, 09:31 PM

Jan 2016

I think they are the same size now.

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