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HOMEMADE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

1 whole chicken
4 cubes chicken bouillon
Enough water to cover chicken
1 batch homemade noodles
1 onion
1 c. potatoes
1 c. celery
1 c. carrots

Cover chicken with water, add chicken bouillon in large pan. Cook until chicken comes off bones easily. Save broth. Debone the chicken and put meat in broth, add the remaining ingredients (add more or less vegetables to taste) except noodles and let simmer on low heat for several hours, stirring occasionally. Add noodles about 1/2 hour before serving. Cook until noodles are tender. Leftover can be frozen.

NOODLES:

2 eggs
1 tsp. salt
Water
Flour

Break eggs in bowl. Save shells. Fill a 1/2 egg shell with water twice and beat eggs, water and salt. Then add flour gradually until dough is stiff. Roll out on floured table and cut. (NOTE: Pizza cutter works well for this.) Cut in 1/4" to 1/2" strips. Separate and let dry at least 2 hours then add to soup.

HOMEMADE CHICKEN SOUP

1 (5 to 6 lb.) ready-to-cook stewing chicken, cut up
6 c. water
1/3 c. chopped onion
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 bay leaf
6 med. ears corn
1 1/2 c. uncooked homemade noodles
1 c. chopped celery
2 tbsp. snipped parsley

In large kettle, combine chicken, water, onion, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Bring to boiling; simmer, covered, about 2 hours, or until chicken is tender. Meanwhile, with sharp knife, make cuts through center of corn kernels in each row of the ears. Cut corn off cobs; scrape cobs. (Should equal 2 cups corn.)

Remove chicken from broth; cool and remove meat from bones. Cut chicken into bite-size pieces; set aside. Skim excess fat from broth. Discard bay leaf. Bring broth to boiling. Add corn, homemade noodles, celery, and parsley. Simmer, covered, about 8 minutes or until corn and noodles are barely done.

Add chicken and heat through, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Makes 8 servings.

thanks ladyhawk47

Oh, add any veggies you like.

Remove skin and wash chicken. Boil chicken in water in which you've added black pepper, powdered chicken boullion, parsley, basil, bay leaf, minced garlic, package of chicken gravy(not so much to thicken, but for the flavor). When chicken is cooked, take out of soup and allow to cool. Remove chicken from bone and return to soup pot. Add dry pasta and boil for about 3 minutes. Turn burner off and let soup set for about 15 minutes so the noodles will finish cooking. If you boil the pasta for the entire time called for, it will be way overcooked because you won't be draining it but leaving it in the hot soup.

anyone have a good recipe for homemade chicken soup? never made it but i've been wanting to try to.

thanks!