Broth, Chicken

Ingredients

• Young fowl

• 4 cups of cold water

• Salt

• Head of lettuce

• Chervel

• 2 tablespoons pearl barley

Directions

1. Cut the fowl into 4 pieces.
2. Wash pieces well with cold water.
3. Fill a stewpan with 4 cups of cold water.
4. Place fowl pieces into the water-filled stewpan.
5. Put a pinch of salt into the stewpan.
6. Boil the chicken until it is skimmed well.
7. Chop up the head of lettuce.
8. Add the white head of the lettuce to the boiling water.
9. Add a handful of chervil to the boiling water.
10. Boil the broth for 1 hour.
11. Strain broth into a bowl.
12. Add the 2 tablespoons of pearl barley.

Source — La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Chiara Digilormo

Louisiana Anthology

July 17, 2022