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Chicken Soup

A simple soup made by boiling chicken with salt and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken into joints and break every bone.

  2. Place the chicken and salt in an earthenware jar.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the jar with water and cover it tightly.

  2. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for two hours.

  3. Strain the broth before serving.

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
Provides the meat and bones that release flavour and body into the broth as it cooks.

“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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