Amish cuisine is truly unique and usually relies on simple ingredients. This Amish soup recipe uses common staples you might find in your morning coffee.

Soups are always a good meal option for dinner. Following are a few favorites from The Amish Cook column over the years.

Lovina has been busy lately with family gatherings, hosting choir practice and a grandson in the hospital. This week she has winter soup recipe.

Yummy! Gloria Yoder is an Amish mom, writer and homemaker in rural Illinois. Readers can write to Gloria at 10510 E. 350th Ave., Flat Rock, Illinois 62427.

The Amish Cook is a weekly column written by Lovina Eicher, an Old Order Amish woman who lives in Ohio. To comment, send mail to Eicher at P.O. Box 2144, Middletown, OH 45042.