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< Back to current issue of Immigrant's Weekly After battling the cold outside nothing is a warming and comforting as sitting down to a bowl of home made chicken soup. It is also a time-tested home remedy for colds. Making your own stock for soup no only tastes better, it allows you to control the amount of salt.
Chicken Stock Scrub carrots well, but is it not necessary to peel them. Leave the onion whole and leave the skin on. It will help add a nice color to the stock. Be sure to pick any yellow or wilted leaves from the parsley. Put all ingredients into a stock pot. Bring the pot to a boil. Skim off any foam or scum that rises to the top. Lower heat to very low simmer. Let it simmer for eight hours adding water if necessary to keep ingredients mostly covered. Turn off heat and allow to cool Strain through a very fine sieve or a strainer lined with cheese cloth. Discard the solids. Cool completely in the refrigerator. Any fat will rise to the top and can be removed. If you want to save your chicken stock and have it handy to use in other recipes, boil it down to on half its volume, pour into ice cube trays and freeze. Pop the chicken cubes out and store in plastic bags to use when needed. When you taste the stock you need to "taste behind the salt." Keep in mind that it does not have any salt, and adjust the seasoning of any recipe where you use your homemade stock. As you become familiar with making stock you can vary the ingredients to use up whatever you have left over in the kitchen. Some traditional recipes call for using leeks, parsnips, rutabagas and turnips in addition to the vegetables listed above. In large restaurants many peelings and scrapings from vegetables are used in stocks. Mushrooms, peas, spinach, lettuce and other greens can all add richness to the stock. Beware of green peppers which can make the stock bitter. Chicken Soup Once you have the basic stock you can use it to make a rich chicken soup.
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1/2 cup chicken meat Cook carrots and celery in chicken stock until tender. Add chicken meat and noodles. Heat through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mmm Mmm Good. Copyright © 1999-2002 American Immigration LLC, ILW.COM
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