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DOSSIER – In this archival photo of November 15, 2005, a Cassorole green bean sits in the foreground while Dorcas Reilly prepares another at the kitchen of the Campbell Soup Co. in Camden, in the New Jersey. Reilly passed away on Monday, October 15, 2018, and her family will celebrate her life on Saturday, October 27 in her home town, Haddonfield, NJ Reilly was Campbell Soup's kitchen supervisor in 1955, when she combined green beans and a mushroom cream soup, topped with crisp fried onions, for Associated Press feature. It's the most popular recipe of all time at Campbell Soup's corporate kitchen. (Photo AP / Mel Evans, File)(Photo: MEL EVANS, AP)

HADDONFIELD, N.J. – The woman who created a staple food for Thanksgiving that millions of people enjoy – the green bean casserole – died at the age of 92.

Dorcas Reilly died of Alzheimer's disease on October 15, said Ken Tomlinson of Hinski-Tomlinson Funeral Home in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Campbell Soup officials said the New Jersey resident was the driving force behind this popular dish, consisting of green beans and a mushroom cream soup, and garnished with crisp fried onions. The company said it was the most popular recipe of its business kitchen. The recipe website received 2.7 million hits during last year's holiday, the company said.

The original recipe card was donated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.

"Dorcas was an incredible woman whose legacy will be etched in the years to come, she will be missed by her colleagues Campbell and everyone who has been touched by her creativity and generous spirit," said the company. communicated.

Reilly was Campbell Soup's kitchen supervisor in 1955 when she combined the ingredients of the legendary green bean dish for an Associated Press report.

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In an interview given to AP in 2005 marking the 50th anniversary of the recipe, Reilly stated that she did not remember putting it to use because the dish was among hundreds of dishes created during from his stay at Campbell's. She also helped create a tomato soup meatloaf, a tuna noodle casserole and Sloppy Joe's "supperburgers".

The recipe is always present on the labels of the soup boxes and television commercials. And Reilly said that she always kept the ingredients of the casserole at her home – just in case someone would ask her to prepare one for her.

Reilly also noted that every time the company runs recipe contests, she typically sees "homemade" variations of the recipe for soup-can for the casserole.

"It would be Aunt Suzy's or grandmother's," she says.

Campbell officials said that consumers often tell them that almost everyone – even novices or bad cooks – can make a green bean dish because it is so easy to prepare.

Reilly worked from time to time for Campbell's between the late 1940s and 1988, when she retired as head of Campbell's kitchen.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas, age 59, son and daughter. A service will be held Saturday at Haddonfield.

Associated Press Editor Bruce Shipkowski of Trenton, NY, contributed to this report.

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