How do you make chicken soup?!

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First you need a pan which will hold 15 pints of soup because you must cater for 1/2 pint of soup per person. It then depends what sort of chicken soup you prefer? A cream of chicken like Cambell's or more of a clear broth with chicken and vegetables?

For a broth-type soup, simply take two clean chickens. Put in a pan with a couple of cloves, bay leaves, pepper corns, one spoon vinegar or juice of half a lemon, a carrot and an onion. Cover the chickens with cold water and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for an hour.

Remove the chickens and cool until cold enough to handle. Remove all the meat and put to one side. Discard the skin and fat, but put the bones back into the stock. You can simmer for a while whilst you prepare vegetables...

Take 3 or 4 leeks and/or onions, celery and carrots. Clean and peel, then dice into attractive sized pieces. Some people like big, others fine diced. It is up to you. The stock should be pretty rich by now so turn off the heat and strain out the bones and herbs.

Put back into the pan and add all the vegetables. Bring back to the boil and simmer for half an hour. In the meantime chop the chicken meat. Not too small though, so people see they are getting wholesome meat. Season to taste.

Some people like to add lentils, pasta or rice. Also different herbs and spices such as curry or paprika. It is your choice! Good luck and enjoy!

There are many ways to make it. Some prefer from a can. But when it comes to homemade one of my favorite recipes for chicken noodle soup is this Paula Deen one:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/the-ladys-chicken-noodle-soup-recipe/index.html

You can also try Alton Browns:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/chicken-noodle-soup-recipe/index.html

If you want to make it for more you might just have to double it.

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Home made chicken soup
recipe is from my now deceased mother in law more than 40 ago

1 chicken (look for lots of yellow fat
salt/pepper to taste
celery (chopped -1/2 to 1 cup
carrots (chopped - 1/2 to 1 cup
1 bay leave
parsley

add above to a large pot with enough water to cover
cook until meat falls off the bone
add more water as it cooks if needed

remove meat (discard bones and skin)
cut meat into chunks and place back into soup

cook dried noodles separately

add cooked noodles to each separate bowl when serving as they will soak up soup juice or cook until they fall apart if left in the soup until reheated for left over meals

******home made dumplings
(in place of noodles)
after soup is completed

mix egg and flour until thick consistancey. (4 eggs, approx 8-10 Tbsp flour)
hand mix well - do not blend
Add 1 tablespoon melted butter
salt and pepper to taste

add spoonfuls of the above mixure to the top of hot simmering soup - cover the pot as it cooks

cook 15-20 minutes

soup - deceased and sadly missed mother in law
klooska dumplings- Tammy as taught by her Mom-Dusty