Must-Have Recipe for Winter: Jewish Penicillin aka Chicken Soup

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Do you wish someone would bring you homemade chicken soup when you have the flu, severe allergies, or “the crud?”  I sure do.   Although experts claim that no one knows why chicken soup helps with recovery from winter colds and flu (there are theories), anecdotal evidence from around the world credit this delicious soup (also lovingly known as Jewish Penicillin), for their recovery.

 In my childhood home, every Saturday my father would make either a chicken soup or a vegetable beef and marrow bone soup.  I credit this practice for his longevity and health.  Here’s my dad’s chicken soup recipe in printable form.

Kathy’s Tip:

Well, just in case no one offers to bring you this treasure when you need it, be prepared to have soup packs in the freezer at the ready. Keep freezer bags filled with fresh, pastured chicken wings and separate bags of soup vegetables, cleaned and cut, ready to plop in the water. Throw a chicken and veggie bag in a crock-pot, cover with water, add salt, turn the crock “on,” and hobble back to bed.

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