Carcass Soup

[donna]

This soup doesn't sound like something you want to eat but is very good. Be sure to use baked fowl to make the soup, capon, chicken, turkey or duck. The baked has better flavor then boiled.

1 carcass of turkey or chicken, etc.
1 bunch celery leaves, or three stalks with the leaves
1 onion
1 pod garlic
scrapes of dressing, meat, skin, gravy
3 sprigs parsley
salt and pepper
leftover giblets
water to cover (about 2 qts.)

Put all the ingredients in soup pot and boil 2 to 3 hours, until all seasoning has gone into soup. Strain and add 1/4 to 1 cup of cooked barley. rice or noodles. Add fresh chopped parsley.

This recipe from "Out Of Kentucky Kitchens" by Marion Flexner.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

With one additional ingredient -- tomato paste to give it some color -- this was my mother's turkey soup recipe for the week after Thanksgiving. She was Pennsylvania German from the coal region near Schuylkill County, so egg noodles were her choice of starch. It is an excellent soup!

 

[diane]

It does sound like something scraped off the roadside, but it really is delicious! Mom used to make something like this using acorn meal and icknish. Icknish - kishwoof - is sort of a cross between celery and onion.