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Chicken Soup: Your Momma Was Right
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Perhaps, in your household, there was chicken soup when you had a cold or the flu. It was certainly ever-present in our house whenever one of us was sick. If our grandmother made the soup, there was a signature amount of fresh garlic too. Now chicken soup has additional scientific validation:
“…There’s nothing like a piping hot bowl of chicken soup when you’re sick. Now it turns out this home remedy could help fight high blood pressure!”
link: Chicken soup fights blood pressure
Not only does chicken soup follow the medical dictum of doing no harm, it repeatedly has scientific validation of its benefits. It simply goes to show that ‘your momma was right’.
Catherine Forsythe
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Erik
October 13th, 2008
at 9:25am
Absolutely, it works. It is best to use fresh ingredients, including an entire uncooked chicken, but even using prepackaged meat and stock is okay if you buy quality stuff.
The real key is making sure to have plenty of onion, carrot and celery to infuse into the broth.
Did you know that the word “restaurant” comes from an old French word meaning “to restore”? Back in the days of the French Revolution when the royal and rich were losing their heads, their hired chefs found themselves with little to do. Some of them turned to making restorative broths using this veggie mix and ham and chicken. They were known as “restaurateurs” and they sold their soup in public to all who came buy, peasant and noble alike.
Anyway, that is how the story goes.