Soups: Turkey Soup Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 Turkey carcass and skin
1 onion (quartered)
8-10 peppercorns
two or three celery stalks (including leaves)
Some or all of these, according to taste:
Cubed raw potatoes
Diced raw carrots
Two or three handfuls of noodles
A handful or two of rice
Leftover (or packaged dry) mashed potatoes (optional)
Salt, celery salt, thyme, parsley, or other flavoring to taste
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Directions:Put the turkey carcass and skin in a large stockpot with enough water to cover. Add a quartered onion, peppercorns, celery stalks (including leaves). Bring to a boil, and then let simmer gently, uncovered, 3-4 hours.
Strain out the bones using a colander or strainer. Cool the broth (first on the counter, and then in the refrigerator, maybe overnight) so you can remove all the fat that rises to the top. Pick the meat off the bones. You will add the meat back to the broth. Add to the broth some cubed potatoes, diced carrots, noodles, rice--whatever you want. Throwing in some leftover (or packaged dry) mashed potatoes will give the broth more body. Add salt, celery salt, thyme, or other flavoring to taste. Leave the soup uncovered while you boil the vegetables. This will reduce the volume of the broth to make it more flavorful. The soup is better the second day, after the flavors blend. |
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Notes: The first Thanksgiving Janet spent with our family, we still had Grandpa Elwood. I had to take him back to the Care Center after dinner, and settle him in bed. While I was gone, thinking I would be tired, Janet decided to clean up the kitchen.
When it came to the turkey bones, she didn't know what I would want to do with them, but she put them in the soup pot anyway. When I came back, I was entirely blown away--not just a clean kitchen but a young woman who knew that part of the cleanup after a turkey dinner is to start the turkey soup using the carcass.
At that moment, Janet and I both knew we were kindred spirits!
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