Chicken Corn Soup

17 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 (5 pound) stewing chicken,
  • 1 large onion studded with 2 whole cloves
  • 1 large carrot
  • 2 outside green celery stalks
  • 3 tablespoons chopped fresh lovage leaves
  • 1/2 lemon in large pieces
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground saffron
  • 12 ears of fresh corn
  • 3/4 cup fresh celery and leaves, chopped
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced
  • 2 large whole chicken breasts
  • Rivels
  • 3/4 cup unbleached flour
  • Pinch salt, or to taste
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon water (mineral or plain seltzer)

Directions

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    ["Cook the chicken slowly in 4 quarts of water (or to cover) for 1 hour.", "Add the vegetables and cook for another 1 hour, then add the lovage and lemon and continue to cook slowly until the chicken is very tender and falls away from the bones.", "The broth should never boil.", "Strain the stock.", "Discard the vegetables, herbs and lemon.", "At this point the stewing chicken has lost its nutrients and taste, discard it.", "Return the stock to the pot and add the saffron.", "Cut the kernels from the ears of corn.", "It is important to get the most \"milk\"" from the corn

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