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Molly's favourite chicken soup

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Ingredients:
5 lbsChicken, quartered
2 Chicken Feet or
4 Chicken Wings or
1 Turkey Wing
3 Cloves Garlic, bruised
1 medOnion, peeled
4 Carrots, peeled and cut up
4 Stalks Celery cut up
?bn Parsley, tied with string
1 Bay Leaf
1 1/2 tspSalt
1/2 tspBlack Peppercorns
Ground Pepper
4 quartWater
Procedures:
1Pour water into a large pot.
2Add the chicken, and chicken feet, garlic, onion, carrots, celery, parsley, bay leaf, salt and peppercorns, and slowly bring to a boil over medium heat.
3Reduce heat and simmer for 3 hours, using a spoon to skim the fat from the soup as thoroughly as possible.
4Cool.
5strain the soup.
6Discard the onion, parsley, bay leaf and peppercorns, and set the other vegetablees aside.
7Skin the chicken and remove the meat from the bones.
8Return the chicken meat, carrots, celery, garlic cloves and broth to the pot and bring back to a simmer, seasoning with additional salt or pepper to taste.
9serve the soup in big bowls, over pastina, rice or spaghettini.
10this soup"s curative powers are released only when the vegetables are mashed together in the bowl.
11Use a fork for mashing.
12Use a big spoon for eating.
13Makes 3 quarts.
14from "cold spaghetti at midnight," by maggie waldron