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Chicken Broth

A clear soup made from a whole chicken and rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Chicken Broth

Chicken Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fowl as you would for any stock.

  2. When ready to use, add 1 tablespoon of rice for each quart of broth.

  3. Boil until the rice is tender.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Fowl
Provides the meat and bones that give the broth its body and flavor.
Rice
Thickens the broth slightly as its starch softens 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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