Pennsylvania Dutch Rivel Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Boil chicken with onion, salt and pepper in 3 quarts of water until tender.
• While chicken is boiling, chop eggs so they are ready.
• (I boil my eggs the night before).
• Remove chicken from bones, shred or cut into pieces.
• Add corn to broth and cook to doneness.
• Meanwhile make the rivels: Mix one raw egg and 1 cup of flour with fork and use your fingers to make crumbs.
• Add this slowly to boiling corn and broth and boil for 15 minutes more.
• Add chicken and parsley.
• The hard cooked eggs are added now, if desired.
• ***Ifyou are going to freeze any of the soup, do not add the hard cooked eggs to that portion.
• They do not freeze well at all and will ruin the soup.

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium heat, combine chicken, water, onions, celery, salt, nutmeg and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 2 hours, adding water as needed, until chicken is very tender. Remove the chicken from the soup. Refrigerate chicken and soup.
• When fat solidifies on surface of soup, remove from refrigerator and remove fat. Remaining soup should equal about 2 1/2 quarts.
• Remove corn from cobs by splitting kernels lengthwise with a sharp knife and scraping corn from cob. Combine soup and corn in a large pot over medium heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until corn is tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place two of the eggs in a small saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Cover and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop. Set aside.
• Chop cooled chicken meat and add to soup.
• In a medium bowl, beat remaining egg until light in color. Beat in flour and milk until smooth. Drop batter by partial spoonfuls into hot broth to make small (1/4 -1/2 inch round) dumplings. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 to 5 minutes, until dumplings hold their shape and float to the surface. Stir in reserved cooked egg.

Steps:

• Cook potatoes and onion in boiling salted water until tender- drain.
• Add 1 quart of milk to potatoes and heat, and then blend in the salt, pepper and parsley.
• Cut butter into flour- blend together the egg and milk using only enough milk to make the mixture thin enough to drop into the hot soup.
• Cover and cook about 10 minutes.
• Serve at once.