Real Chicken Soup
I NEVER buy soup canned! Never buy any industrial food - I do it all myself, day by day!
For a real good chicken-soup I take:
1 Chicken (preferably an older soup-chicken for better flavour!)
4 pints of water (2 liters)
4 cloves
6 pimentos
2-3 bay leaves
6-8 juniper berries
a pinch of safron
2 whole ordenary onions with skin
3-4 cloves garlic
12 black peppercorns
and boil them in a pressure cooker for about an hour or an hour and a half.
Strain through a sieve and now cook for about 15-20 minutes the already cut into pieces following vegetables in it until they are tender:
1 leak in rings
2-3 carrots in cubes
1/4 cellery turnip in cubes
1 parsley turnip in slices
Finally add salt, some sherry (3 tablespoons full) and a bit of ground nutmeg and a handful of minced parsley to give a good and rich taste.
Cook some fine noodles or rice seperatly in salted water before you add to the soup and take some of the boild chicken meat, cut into strips, and add to the soupt before serving.
This is a real good soup to protect you from colds and flu during wintertime or, if already infected, to shorten the illness and make you feel much better!
Ralf
Any question? Don't hesitate to ask me!