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CHICKEN SOUP
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CHICKEN SOUP

5 ingredients 4 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

157
Calories
1g
Protein
17g
Fat
1g
Carbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 5 pints of water
  • a slice of middling chopped fine
  • a pint of cream
  • a tablespoon of butter
  • a bunch of thyme

Directions

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MRS. FRANCIS BROOKE, “ST. JULIAN,” KING GEORGE CO., VA.

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_Contributed by Mrs. James T. Halsey, Philadelphia, Pa._

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Take a fat chicken, 5 pints of water, a slice of middling chopped fine. The soup must be put over a slow fire to simmer instead of boiling the whole morning until about a half hour before dinner, then let it boil. For thickening use a pint of cream, a tablespoon of butter and 1 of flour and a bunch of thyme. The thickening must be put in before it boils and the thyme taken out.

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NOTE.--This recipe came from one of the old and most typical Virginia homes, “St. Julian,” in Virginia. It was the recipe of my great-great-great aunt, Mrs. Francis Brooke, and is more than a century old.--Sue Mason Maury Halsey.

By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.) · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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