Cream Of Chicken Soup Supreme

* Exported from MasterCook *

CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP SUPREME

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Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Poultry Soups

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 Stewing chicken, cut up
2 lb Veal knuckle (have butcher
-crack it into 4 or f
Pieces )
2 tb Butter
2 Carrots, scrubbed and
-scraped, cut into 1/4 -inch
-pieces
1/4 c Chopped parsley
3/4 c Diced celery
1/4 ts Black pepper
1 sm Onion, diced
10 c Cold water
1 c Heavy cream
3 tb Instant flour
3 Egg yolks. beaten until
-lemon yellow
1/2 ts Salt
2 Drops Tabasco (optional)

Place the chickeo, veal knuckle and butter in a large
soup kettle. Lightly brown the outside of the chicken
in the butter and the fat that wiil gather from the
chicken and veal knuckle Then add the carrots,
parsley, celery, pepper, onion and cold water.
Continue to cook until it starts to boil. Remove all
surplus fat and froth that may gather on the top. Turn
the heat down and continue to simmer for 2 to 3 hours,
or until a fork can be twisted in the meat of the
chicken breast.

Remove the chichen and veal bones from the soup. Set
them aside to cool. Strain the soup through a fine
sieve and set it aside to cool. As soon as it is
cooled, carefully remove all of the fat from the
surface. Then return the soup to the stove and bring
to a simmer again. Remove all the meat from the
chicken bones. Discard all the skin and vegetable
pieces, for you have already extracted all of the good
in them.

Beat the cream, flour and eggs together until all are
smoothly blended. Add the salt to the simmering soup
and mix well. Take about 1/2 cup of the hot simmering
soup and beat it into the egg and cream mixture. Then
slowly add the egg cream mxture to tbe soup, stirring
all the while. Continue to cook over low heat for a
few minutes longer, until the soup has thickened and
lightly coats tbe spoon. At this point add the Tabasco
if you like this sharpness in creamed soups. Serve
piping hot with saltines.

Serves 6 generously.

Source: The Super Chicken Cookbook by Iona Nixon Found
by Fran McGee



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