Chicken Broth

Ingredients

• One pound chicken with bone
• Two quarts of water
• Very small onion
• Little salt
• Two tablespoonfuls of rice

Directions

1.  Take a chicken or fowl(small pieces of the former, it makes the broth very good)
2.  Break the bones, and clean it carefully. 
3.  Put the broken chicken into the saucepan, with two quarts of water. 
4.  Add some small onion, a little salt, and two tablespoonfuls of rice. 
5.  Make it boil all the way. 
6. When it boils skim and cover closely. and let it simmer slowly for six hours. If you make from fowl  let it cool for 5 hours. 
7. Serve cold or hot as desire.

Source - Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Dipson Baskota

Louisiana Anthology

January 6, 2015