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Chicken Tea

A simple broth made by boiling chicken pieces in water with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Chicken Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the chicken into small pieces.

  2. Boil the chicken pieces in 1 quart of water with a little salt for 20 minutes.

  3. Pour the tea from the chicken before the meat is completely cold.

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

Chicken
Supplies the meat and flavor that give the broth its body and taste.
Water
Forms the liquid that draws flavor from the chicken during boiling.

“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.

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