Cream of Chicken Soup Recipe

Homemade recipes for cream of chicken soup.

An old chicken for soup is much the best. Cut it up into quarters, put it into a soup kettle with ½ a pound of corned ham, and an onion; add four quarts of cold water. Bring soup slowly to a gentle boil, and keep this up until the liquid has diminished one third, and the meat drops from the bones; then add ½ a cup of rice. Season with salt, pepper and a bunch of chopped parsley.

Cook slowly until the rice is tender, then the meat should be taken out. Now stir in two cups of rich milk thickened with a small amount of flour. The chicken could be fried in a spoonful of butter and a gravy made, reserving some of the white part of the meat, chopping it and adding it to the soup.