Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Stephanie! I found you a soup recipe that is so GOOD! You may have already found one by now, since you asked back in October, but here's a good one if not. Now really isn't the season for soup, but it won't be long...


5 quarts water - (4 cups = 1 quart)
4 to 5 chicken breasts
1 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon Bon Appetit seasoning
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons white sugar
1 Tablespoon dried parsley flakes
3 Knorr chicken bouillon cubes
1 bay leaf - (remove this when the chicken is done)
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup each carrots and celery (to your taste)
Any other veggies you like in chicken soup
2 cups (or more) Country Pasta, Homemade Style Egg Pasta, this can be purchased at Walmart


Directions

Place water, chicken, seasonings, sugar, bouillon and bay leaf in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and allow to simmer until chicken is done. Remove chicken from broth. Allow chicken to sit on a plate until cool enough to handle. (Sometimes a foam will form on the surface of the broth, simply skim the foam off with a spoon and discard) This is caused from cooking the chicken on too high heat. Use medium low heat when cooking the chicken breasts. When cool enough, shred chicken into coarse pieces. Add milk and butter to the chicken broth. Add shredded chicken to broth, then let simmer (with lid on) on very, very low heat, for at least 1 hour. Add noodles. Cook soup over medium heat, stirring often until noodles are done, & juice has thickened.
If you want thicker soup, simply mix well:
1 tablespoon flour with 1/4 cup milk, and slowly whisk into soup....stirring often, so that it doesn't form lumps. When the noodles are done to your taste (about 1 hour of simmer time, after adding the noodles), serve & Enjoy! It's delicious to serve the soup ladled over mashed potatoes.

I got this recipe from http://www.getoffyourbuttandbake.blogspot.com/ The original recipe is a little different and also demonstrates HOMEMADE noodles.
It's called Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Homemade Noodles.
http://getoffyourbuttandbake.blogspot.com/2008/09/creamy-chicken-noodle-soup-with.html