3 Generations of Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

1 stewing chicken ( I use a roasting chicken with a lot of meat on it-about 5 to 8 pounds- depends on how much chicken you like in your soup)

1 bag carrots (sliced thin or you can dice if you like)

6 individual stalks of celery (cut and diced fine)

1 small onion, diced fine

1 1/2 cups either rice, or pearl barley (which every you prefer)

1 bag of wide egg noodles, or kluski noodles egg noodles (they are like homemade)

Or make your own homemade egg noodles the day before and leave to dry)

(the amounts of carrots, celery and onion, will depend on the size of the kettle and the size of the chicken.)

Put chicken in Huge soup kettle - fill kettle more than 1/2 full. I usually put mine at 3/4 full, it boils down and I add more water later.

Cook until chicken is tender

When chicken is tender, take it out of the kettle and let it cool.

While it is cooling add your celery, onion, and carrots to the juice.

(if I am in a hurry, I will add the onion, celery and carrots right when I put the chicken in, it makes the house smell so good.)

When chicken is cooled, pull the pieces of chicken off of the bones, and cut into small pieces (either use a knife, or a kitchen scissors)

But back in with vegetables, along with rice or pearl barley (if you want you can use both, (about 3/4 cup of each)

Boil 1/2 to 3/4 bag of the noodles, until cooked, but not mushy. Drain and rinse and add to soup. Salt and Pepper to taste. Let simmer until dinner or supper time.

*Now my grandmother never put her chicken back in the soup. The soup was served, and the chicken was put on the plate next to your soup.

* Actually grandma Kutil had bowls with a wide ridge. We also sprinkled nutmeg over the top of the soup. Great taste if you like nutmeg.

*ENJOY (I will have to look up my home-made egg noodle recipe. )

*There is a story with that:

Grandma Kutil use to make a huge batch of egg noodles, and she would let us cut them thin, when she wasn't looking we would swipe some noodles to munch on while cutting, she would scold us if she caught us, to find out years later, Grandma Kutil already had made a batch of noodles, these too were to be used for soup, but she knew more would get eaten)