>>I make, well, my mother still makes, quite a decent chicken soup.
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>if you are saying you put the chicken meat back in with the veggies and
>simmer several hours, I think you are cooking the chicken meat to death. It
>has already been cooked. Keep it out until close to the end.

That's a good idea. The chicken now is just a different texture, it
doesn't have much flavor when you actually bite a piece of chicken.