SC - Chicken soup challenge

[Olwen the Odd]

Having a bout of the sniffle/hack myself, I just last night made chicken 
soup.

1 whole chicken hacked up to fit in the pot
1 medium onion sliced, sauted
a few scraped carrots in chunk
2 stalks celery in chunk
0-5 cloves garlic (depending on how much you like it) chopped and sauted
lots of salt
white pepper
bay leaf
fresh sage torn
fresh basil
fresh oregano
fresh cilantro
cover with cold water, boil till done, remove fat (throughout cooking), 
strain broth reserving ingredients.

I add a small splash of single malt scotch to each cup of broth.

With the remaining ingredients I bone the chicken and flesh it, chop or tear 
it into chunks, take the carrot chunks, add new onions and potato chunks, 
put it in a black chicken pot with some of the broth and top it with a 
drop-muffin sticky mixture, loosly cover and bake.  It makes a great chicken 
pot pie.

Olwen


>From: "Richard Kappler" <rkappler at home.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>, "Dawg Pound" <Dawg_Pound at egroups.com>
>Subject: SC - Chicken soup challenge
>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:58:02 -0400
>
>sniffle....hack.....HARRUMPH!  Okay, so the denizens of Puck's Glenn and 
>indeed a siginificant portion of Aquidneck Island is suffering from the 
>Creeping Crud.  As a cure-all I am resorting to massive quantities of 
>grandma's tried and true tonic...bourbon!  Alas, Milady does not appreciate 
>the finer points of German home recipes, so I am making her fresh chicken 
>soup.  Waldo also has a friend who is feeling under the weather, so he 
>wants me to teach him how to make chicken soup.  Waldo lives on Pringles, 
>pop tarts, cheerios and fast food.  You have no idea how scary it is trying 
>to teach this man about cooking.  I told him you roast chicken bones, boil 
>them for about a day with onions, garlic, basil and thyme.  Strain off the 
>broth, chill it, skim the fat and you have chicken stock.  To turn this 
>into chicken soup, add to the stock a dash of champagne, basil, parsley, 
>garlic, salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, one tenth of a pinch of sage, a bit 
>of lemon juice, diced carrots, shallots and celery, and of course, chunks 
>of chicken, simmer until all is well cooked, about three hours, then chill 
>IN AN OPEN CONTAINER (the best chicken soup I ever made went sour by 
>putting it in the fridge overnight covered) overnight or so to let 
>everthing meld and, violins!  you have chicken soup.  Good for the soul, 
>good for the Creeping Crud though science has no idea why.
>
>As I finished pontificating on the proper way to make chicken soup, the Big 
>Yaller Dawg snorted ever so disrestpectfully and muttered under his breath 
>something that sounded like "What the hell makes you an expert?  Oh, and 
>I'm hungry you bastige."  The Little Yaller Dawg stumbled over her Big 
>Yaller Ears with her Even Bigger Yaller Paws, and added her disbelief to 
>the chorus.  To both of which I replied, "Okay you ingrates, lets offer the 
>discussion up to the Cathedral, and what the hell do old dawgs and puppies 
>know about chicken soup anyway?"
>
>SOOOOOoooooo.... What's everybody's favorite chicken soup recipe, why, and 
>are there period recipes?
>
>regards, sniffle...snuffle...hiccup....Puck

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