Potato soup with bacon

Creamy Potato Soup with Bacon and Marjoram

The potato soup with bacon from Manufaktur U is a creamy soup made from potatoes, leeks, and carrots in a slow-cooked stock, refined with crispy bacon, marjoram, nutmeg, and cream. Not a puréed ready-made mix, but a table-ready soup from a small, carefully selected artisanal producer.

Potato soup with bacon at Manufaktur U represents a classic of German home-style cooking: potatoes, onions, leeks, and carrots are simmered together in a homemade-style beef bone and vegetable stock, before finely diced bacon, marjoram, nutmeg, and cream provide a savory finishing touch to the soup. The 400 ml can brings this simple yet proven combination to the table in just a few minutes.

Creamy, savory, and with a distinct bacon note

As it warms, a warm aroma of marjoram and roasted bacon unfolds, while the soup gathers into a creamy, thick consistency on the ladle, entirely without artificial thickeners.

The potatoes are soft enough to fall apart on the spoon, while leeks and carrots provide small, colorful accents. Creamy, hearty, savory—the bacon adds roasted aromas and salt to every spoonful, while the cream gently rounds off the sharpness of the nutmeg.

If you serve it at around 75 degrees Celsius, you can clearly taste the marjoram, that herb which was an essential part of grandmother's potato soup, along with a subtle sweetness from the carrots cooked alongside it. It is only with time on the stove that the potatoes and stock develop this natural binding that needs no cream to appear velvety—the cream itself merely rounds off the final sharpness of the nutmeg.

Creamy on the plate in just a few minutes

The contents of the can go into the pot and are heated for a good 5 minutes while stirring until the potato soup bubbles quietly and the scent of bacon and marjoram fills the kitchen.

A few roasted bacon cubes or freshly chopped chives on top provide texture, a piece of farmhouse bread provides satiety. The 400 ml is enough for a filling portion, or easily enough for two on a hungry day if supplemented with a slice of bread.

Anyone wanting to try more from the series will find the hearty pea soup with smoked pork and the robust goulash soup among the soups from Manufaktur U, both made from the same slow-cooked bone broth. Unopened, the can will keep for up to 2 years without needing a refrigerator.

An artisanal producer with a sense for the simple

There is no industrial kitchen behind this potato soup, and certainly not our own: it is cooked for us by a small artisanal producer that Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch selected for the Manufaktur U brand because they still cook with patience there, rather than producing soup on an assembly line.

Ingredients such as potatoes, leeks, and carrots are cleaned, cut, and weighed by hand before being cooked in the slow-simmered bone broth—the production is an EU-certified artisanal process. The soup is naturally so flavorful that it manages without flavor enhancers, and it also requires no preservatives, no matter how long the can sits in the cupboard.

The Manufaktur U assortment in our shop now includes ten soups, from this potato soup to the venison cream soup with deer dumplings—every single one prepared by hand before being cooked in small batches. You can taste this difference from the very first spoonful.