"RodS" > wrote in message
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> On 4/09/2011 1:55 PM, Ozgirl wrote:
>> I want to do a chicken one next, anyone got a favourite chicken soup
>> recipe?
>>
>> Every time I have made it I have mostly followed my grandmother's
>> recipe. The chicken would be an old "boiler" cooked slowly of course.
>> Home made stock. Soup always had corn in it She used to scrape the
>> corn off the cobs though, I use canned, lol. Potatoes, carrots,
>> onions
>> and fresh peas. I always nixed the potatoes. Garlic wasn't anything
>> my
>> nan ever used. I don't know anyone back in the day who did use it now
>> I
>> come to think of it.
>
> How about pearl barley always add that to my ham soup should go with
> chicken.

I like barley but I like the texture of lentils more.

I used to get the dried soup mix when making "pea and ham" soup. These
days I just use lentils and fresh veggies.