Name: Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken; water; salt

Chicken Soup

Ingredients

1 whole chicken
water
salt

Directions

Prepare

Tie the chicken's feet down and turn the wings back.

Cook

Place the chicken in a pot and cover with water.
Add salt to taste.
Bring to a boil and then simmer until the chicken is cooked through.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Whole chicken: Provides the meat and body that flavour the broth as it simmers.
Water: Extracts flavour and gelatin from the chicken to form the broth.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.