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Irene Dunne's Chicken Broth

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 pounds chicken
  • 1 gallon water
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 stalks celery
  • 1 leek
  • 2 onions
  • one carrot
  • 1 cup noodles
  • black pepper
  • few grains nutmeg

Instructions
 

  • Simmer chicken in salted water 1 hour, then add noodles, celery, leek, carrot and onions, cut into pieces, and continue cooking until tender. Take chicken from kettle, remove skin, bones and gristle, put meat back in broth, heat, and strain into a tureen, adding nutmeg and freshly ground pepper to taste pepper.