This is a good soup, but not great one in my opinion. It's basically chili, with cabbage mixed in. Cumin of course is a very powerful spice that tends to "chilify" soups and that is defiantly what happened here. Due to the fact that a peeve of mine is people not following the recipe at all..and giving it a bad review...I did follow the recipe in spite of my cumin concerns. The only thing I did differently was I added beef stock in place of the water/bullion cubes, because bullion cubes are very salty and I have high BP...and low sodium stock is a good substitute. However it was good, and this is a good way to work more veggies into your diet. My 10 year old son even enjoyed it and he typically hates tomato, cabbage, and beans - so go figure. lol So basically, if you like chili, and like cabbage, you will enjoy this soup, but I've had much better. Thanks for the recipe!

Reviewed On: Jan. 12, 2009

I used this recipe with "The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies." The icing was definatly better than the cookie. It tasted fine - a good basic cookie icing. I'm not sure if I would say they come out any more shiny than an icing made without Corn Syrup, and it does take awhile to harden - but a good icing.

Reviewed On: Dec. 27, 2008

I came across this recipe while searching for a sugar cookie recipe to make decorated Christmas cookies. Each year I try a different recipe or tweak an old recipe in search for "the cookie recipe" in hopes to recreate the cookies of my childhood. I was hopeful with this recipe because of the great reviews, however I must agree with the last reviewer who said these cookies were bland. Considering I added 1 teaspoon of almond extract and 1 teaspoon of dried orange peel (I followed the recipe exactly - I just added those two things), I believe they would have been next to tasteless if I had not added any extras. While the dough was easy to work with, they were just very bland and also burned easily. With these cookies 2 minutes makes the difference between a barely done cookie and a charred disk. Granted, my husband was the one in charge of watching the cookies in the oven and he is easily distracted. lol If you want a cookie thats easy to make, work with, and can be easily mass produced these are fine. But if your looking for a special heirloom cookie this falls way short. Thanks for the recipe though, my kids had great fun making and decorating them!

Reviewed On: Dec. 27, 2008