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Chicken Soup

From The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book, 1907

Serves 4

Barley and rice can be added.

Presented as published in 1907. 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

  • To one chicken
  • five pints cold water
  • a slice of fat bacon
  • a cup of cream

Method

  1. Boil chicken in water with bacon until reduced to a quart.

  2. Remove chicken, add cream and season.

Nutrition per serving

328Calories
9 gProtein
2 gCarbs
31 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To one chicken put five pints cold water and a slice SOUPS 11 of fat bacon, and boil slowly down to a quart. Re- move chicken. Just before taking from fire add a cup of cream and a little parsley and onion to season. Thicken as usual, — a tablespoon of butter rubbed into one tablespoon of flour. Barley and rice are both nice for chicken soup

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