My Mom's Special Chicken Dumpling Soup
Ingredients
- 1
whole chicken
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1 Spanish onion
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7 carrots
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7 celery stalks
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Bay leaves
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Whole cloves
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Whole allspice
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Salt
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1 box farina
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2 eggs
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Crisco
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Salt
Directions
Cut up 1 whole chicken,
clean off skin. Combine in large soup pot: 1 onion cut up, carrot, celery, 3 to
4 bay leaves, 5 to 6 whole cloves, 5 to 6 whole allspice, and salt to taste.
Fill pot with water, let cook on low heat 4 to 5 hours. One half hour before eating, in mixer, 2
tablespoons Crisco (shortening), 2 eggs, 1/2 glass water. Gradually add farina until
it pulls away from sides. In boiling salt water add dumpling mix by the
teaspoon, drop into hot water, let cook 20 minutes. Drain, serve with soup.