Mennonite Noodle Soup

Total Time: 2 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 (3 -4 lb) roasting chickens
• 2 quarts chicken broth (premade or store bought will do)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 pinch pepper
• 1/2 cinnamon stick
• 3 whole star anise (if you can't find star anise seed in it's whole form, then use anise seed, take a spice ball and fil)
• 3 tablespoons butter
• fine egg noodles, the really thin skinny kind

Recipe

• 1 skin the chicken so it is not so fatty.
• 2 put chicken and broth in a big pot.
• 3 add anise, bay leaves, pepper and cinnamon stick.
• 4 simmer for 2- 2 1/2 hours, skimming off foam occasionally.
• 5 add butter and simmer for about 1/2 hour.
• 6 remove the chicken and pull meat off carcass, place in a separate bowl.
• 7 skim off any remaining fat from broth.
• 8 cook your noodles in clean water and place in another separate bowl.
• 9 to serve, fill your own bowl with noodles and meat desired, pour hot broth over top.