Chicken Soup

Ingredients

• Put the chicken on in cold water
• about 1 pint of milk
• a large piece of butter
• a teaspoonful of flour
• red pepper
• salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Boil the chicken until tender, then cut it into pieces and return to the pot.

2. 2

   Add milk, butter, red pepper, salt, and a thickening made from flour.

3. 3

   Make small balls of fine pastry and drop them into the soup twenty minutes before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors (1907) by Maude A. Bomberger, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN SOUP {Kingston Hall) Put the chicken on in cold water and let it boil till tender. Take it out about an hour before dinner and cut it in pieces and return it to the pot. Add about 1 pint of milk, a large piece of butter, red pepper, and salt to taste. Also put in a teaspoonful of flour

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