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Chicken Soup

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 6

Recipe by Mrs. H. Pogue.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • one good-sized chicken
  • one gallon of water
  • nearly half a tea-cupful of rice
  • four small potatoes
  • half a pint of new milk
  • four tea-spoonfuls of flour
  • salt and pepper to taste

Method

  1. Boil the chicken in one gallon of water for three hours.

  2. When almost done, add rice and potatoes.

  3. Thicken with milk and flour, and season with salt and pepper.

Nutrition per serving

152Calories
8 gProtein
21 gCarbs
4 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN SOUP. Take one good-sized chicken, and dress and wash it care- is The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 23 fully; boil it three hours in one gallon of water; when it is almost done, put in nearly half a tea-cupful of rice and four small potatoes; thicken with half a pint of new milk, with four tea-spoonfuls of flour ; salt and pepper to taste

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