Editing Tangency Cookbook (section)

===ABC Soup, by [[User:CyanideBreathmint|CyanideBreathmint]]===

One chicken leg (thigh and drumstick) or half a small chicken carcass, bones and skin left on.<br>
Three potatoes, cubed.<br>
Two carrots, diced.<br>
Three ribs of celery, diced.<br>
Two large onions or four small onions, sliced into eighths.<br>
Two tablespoons black peppercorns.<br>
Four tablespoons crushed garlic.<br>
Soy sauce to taste.<br>
Salt to taste.<br>
Six cups of water.

Optional:<br>
One tomato, cubed.<br>
One sprig green onion, chopped finely.<br>
Parsely or cilantro.

Get a hugeass cooking pot. Put the chicken and the vegetables in the pot. Stir the crushed garlic and soy sauce in whilst putting everything in the pot. Tie the peppercorns in a small muslin spice bag, and put that in, too.

Cover it with your six cups of water.

Keep the soup covered and leave the heat on high. If your huge soup pot has a pyrex cover it can be handy.

Go off and read something. Come back periodically and see if your soup is bubbling.

If it is at a decent boil, taste the broth and then salt it to taste at this point. Don't worry if it tastes like bland dishwater. It will turn better later.

Turn the heat to medium, keep the pot covered, and then go back and read something.

Check back periodically every half an hour for three hours. When the onions are turning translucent and falling apart at the poke of a ladle and the carrots and potatoes are round-cornered, it ought to be done. Taste the broth. It should taste like chicken and onions. If you made this with boneless skinless chicken you deserve the tasteless travesty you got.

Take the lid out and using tongs or other appropriate implements, fish the chicken out and place it on a plate to cool. Remove and discard skin. Shred the now-tender meat off the bones and toss it back in the pot. Discard bones once you're sure you haven't wasted any chicken.

Turn heat down to low, and leave the cover off. Leave the soup to simmer for about half an hour.

Ladle large helpings of the soup over the cubed tomato, in big-sized bowls, and sprinkle the chopped greens on top (if you wanted them.) Don't forget to take the bag of peppercorns out, unless you want someone trying to eat it.

Author's notes: I have no idea why it's called ABC soup. It's been called that in my family since I was a little girl.