Molly's Favourite Chicken Soup

* Exported from MasterCook *

MOLLY'S FAVOURITE CHICKEN SOUP

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Serving Size : 3 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups Main dish
Cyberealm

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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5 lb Chicken, quartered
2 Chicken Feet or
4 Chicken Wings or
1 Turkey Wing
3 Cloves Garlic, bruised
1 md Onion, peeled
4 Carrots, peeled and cut up
4 Stalks Celery cut up
1/2 bn Parsley, tied with string
1 Bay Leaf
1 1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Black Peppercorns
Ground Pepper
4 qt Water

Pour water into a large pot. Add the chicken, and
chicken feet, garlic, onion, carrots, celery, parsley,
bay leaf, salt and peppercorns, and slowly bring to a
boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 3
hours, using a spoon to skim the fat from the soup as
thoroughly as possible. Cool.

Strain the soup. Discard the onion, parsley, bay leaf
and peppercorns, and set the other vegetablees aside.
Skin the chicken and remove the meat from the bones.
Return the chicken meat, carrots, celery, garlic
cloves and broth to the pot and bring back to a
simmer, seasoning with additional salt or pepper to
taste.

Serve the soup in big bowls, over pastina, rice or
spaghettini.

This soup's curative powers are released only when the
vegetables are mashed together in the bowl. Use a fork
for mashing. Use a big spoon for eating. Makes 3
quarts.

From "Cold Spaghetti at Midnight," by Maggie Waldron

Source: Medford Mail Tribune, 30 November 1993



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