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Fresh Shelled Pea Soup

This soup is a lovely dark green colour and has all the wonderful ingredients and flavours of peas à la Française - peas, spring onions, lettuce and bacon - blended into a velvety smooth soup.

Courgette Soup with Watercress and Pecorino Pesto

This light summer soup is perfect for late summer when courgettes are cheap and plentiful. Serve each bowl with a spoonful of the watercress and Pecorino pesto zigzagged over the surface of the soup. Vegetarians...

Late Summer Cucumber Soup

Serve this hot if the weather is less than summery or, on a hot day, it is equally good served very cold in chilled soup bowls.

Chilled Yoghurt and Cucumber Soup with Mint

This cool, light and subtle soup is incredibly easy and quick to make. However it does need some fresh summer cucumbers in season for the best flavour of all.

Chilled Spanish Gazpacho

This is a truly beautiful soup for serving ice-cold during the summer and it's particularly refreshing if we're lucky enough to have hot weather. However, please don't attempt to make it in the winter...

Lazy Summer Soup

Serve in ice-cold bowls, which will be wonderfully refreshing if the weather is hot. Please note: Delia's how To Cheat at Cooking was written in 2008, however many supermarkets stopped sellling their ingredients...

Old English Summer Soup

This is a helpful recipe for gardeners whose summer crop of vegetables threatens to overwhelm them. If you like, you can serve this soup cold in chilled bowls in really hot weather. Either way, it's a...

A Summer Soup of Lettuce, Cucumber and Peas

An excess of home-grown cucumbers and what to do with them forth a delightful fresh, green summer soup, which we enjoy served hot during a chillier snap, but it's equally good served ice cold.