Purée Mongole is approximated with one can Campbell's Pea Soup, one can Campbell's Tomato Soup, sufficient milk and water, pinch of curry powder. The Campbell's Soup Company included a recipe for it in their 1949 recipe booklet Easy Ways to Good Meals, and Dinah Shore included it in her cookbook, Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah (with a dash of sherry). Purée Mongole was J. Edgar Hoover's favorite soup.