and welcome to my kitchen today I'm going to share with you a Pennsylvania
Dutch treat something I grew up with and something that it's tradition in my
family that my children were brought up on as well today I'm going to make
homemade chicken noodle soup with homemade Pennsylvania Dutch noodles I
hope you enjoy this video and I hope that you have some Pennsylvania Dutch
tradition into your family and the days to come I was going through my pantry
this morning to get some chicken broth and somehow I missed a little section in
my pantry where this was from 2012 I really didn't think I had any food that
old but I want to show you what it looks like to have food that seven years old
in fact I had to wipe the lid really close to see that it says the number 12
on it so many times people say well Tessie it says on the box that you can
only have it for 18 months the seals are good for 18 months it's much longer than
that my friends you can use canned goods for almost indefinitely as long as it's
stored in a cool dry place and you have a good seal on it so the only thing that
you would miss maybe is a little bit of the nutrition value when it comes to
canned vegetables or canned fruit but really in all due honesty your food is
really good yet so I'm gonna show you what seven-year-old food looks like and
we're gonna make our soup as you can tell this is really dark and that is
because the chicken broth or the chicken that I cooked was an older chicken
sometimes the older the chicken the more fat and the darker the broth will be but
there's nothing wrong with it by thinking that this is all I have for my
2012 stash but who knows I try very hard to have things organized but every once
in a while when you have a large pantry like mine you'll miss some of the food
so the first thing you want to do is whenever you have something home Candace
you want to make sure that it's sealed correctly so I'm gonna see how sealed
this is
and that had a really good seal on it so we're gonna use it works which is a
gallon chicken noodle soup has the easiest image you could possibly make so
what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take the corn that did not seal and I'm going
to drain it now sometimes I add the liquid to it so I'm going to check the
rim of the jar to see if there's a nick in it and there isn't I do not know why
this one didn't seal but there's no Nick in the top so this is a good canning jar
I'm going to put the other one sometimes jars just don't seal now that was partly
sealed but it wasn't totally sealed and there's nothing wrong with that jar so
we'll go ahead and I'm gonna add the corn to this and then I'll show you what
we add next all right so I added my corn and I have my chicken broth in here now
we're gonna go ahead and add the chicken as you know from yesterday's video I
froze some chicken
so we're just gonna put the frozen chicken in because it's already cooked
we're just gonna lay it in here and now all we're gonna do is add a carrot and
I'm also gonna add a little bit of some of my spring onions that I dried so here
are some spring onions that I dried people often ask me what do I do with my
dried goods and here is something that we can use in the soup
so we're just going out a little bit and that's going to give us a little bit of
color and a flavor as well now we'll go ahead and add your carrots and this soup
is gonna simmer for at least an hour and while the soup is simmering we are going
to make some homemade noodles to put in the soup so let's get the carrot and
let's get cutting the carrot up so I have a carrot that was leftover from
last week's video and it's already washed
so all we're gonna do is add a little bit of carrot now I'm gonna cut them a
little more thin than I do sometimes because this is not going to be a suit
that's going to cook all day long it's just going to cook for like an hour so
we really want our carrots to get soft everything else and the soup is already
cooked so basically it's heating it to a boil and then letting it simmer
friends here's another batch of corn this is batch number three and this is
another 16 pints so I think I'm done with my installment of candy corn I did
it three times I think I did twelve one time twenty for the next and sixteen so
this should give me quite a supply all summer long and for next year as well
who knows if I go back and I still see it for $0.99 I just may get another
twelve packs but I'm canning this while the soup is cooking and I thought I
wanted to share this part with you
all right so this is what the soup is turning out to look like
so it's amazing so all I need to do is to add a little
salt and pepper to it and I would do that right at the end so there is a corn
and there's the turkey from yesterday and just a little bit of the dehydrated
onion spring onions so now we're going to go ahead and we're going to make
their noodles and our noodles is the very last thing that we do so the first
thing we're going to do is we're going to take four eggs but three of them are
separate so we're going to use three egg yolks
so what we're going to do is we're going to just take the whites from the yolks
some of these eggs are really large now we will use the whites for something
else so we have three egg yolks and then one whole way and then we're gonna go
ahead and we're gonna beat them lightly
look how dark and rich and color they are because they're my own chickens and
they're free ranged now we're going to take one teaspoon of salt and three
tablespoons of water to our eggs so it's one teaspoon of salt
and three tablespoons of water
just start a little bit now we're gonna go ahead and add two cups of flour
here
- this is some of my oven
this is of my oven canned flour from 2016 and it's beautiful I have a food
saver now so I wouldn't be uncanny anymore because the food saver is really
nice but I do love the oven canning if you don't have the modern equipment like
a food saver so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna just stir this so we get
a really good dough so we're going to incorporate this now we don't need it
like bread so we're not going to need it we're just going to incorporate it
together until it forms a really nice dough and then we're going to put it in
two different balls and then we're going to pull it out so now all we do is we're
gonna roll it out some people like a really thick dough some people like some
really thin dough just gonna take a little bit of flour and we're gonna roll
it out which is good and smooth so if you have a thicker dough it would be
like the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie our chicken pot pie is
not actually in a pie it actually is a pie dough
so I think that's fairly thin now you can have a fancy pie cutter which I have
it somewhere out in my candy brooch or you can just use a pizza cutter so what
we're going to do is we're going to make strips so I'm going to go this way
and then I'm gonna go down this way we don't want our noodles too big it just
depends on how you like yet so I'm going like this now what we do is we want to
bring upper temperature to our soup because we want to bring the soup to a
boil and when the soup is in a boil we're going to drop our noodles in now
we have another batch of noodles to make so now let's turn the camera back to the
soup alright our soup is good and hot now what we're going to do is we're just
going to drop our noodles into the soup
my children used to always pick out the noodles in the soup because they loved
the noodles
and you will know the noodles are finished when they float to the top
as the longer the soup sits do more the noodles will soak up the broth so the
next day your soup would be more like a almost like a casserole there wouldn't
have near as much broth to it but it's so good
so well
broke in the soup up to a boil we're going to go ahead and make the rest of
the noodles
the chicken noodle soup is finished so we're going to pour some into our bowl
and we're gonna give it a taste test and I hope you give this recipe a try and
bring you a little bit of Pennsylvania Dutch traditions in your household
it's totally finished and it smells just like how gran will fan you made it but
before we begin eating I'm gonna share with you something I love to put in my
chicken noodle soup and it is a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition but you may
think this is rather strange but others think it's just a daily part of their
life we put one slice of American cheese in our chicken noodle soup we also will
add cheese to our apple pie hmm let me know in the comments have you ever heard
of adding cheese to your chicken noodle soup so I added just a little bit of
pepper and I add a little bit of salt and it's really really hot mmm this is
something I grew up with this is something that I raised my children on
and a homemade middle there's nothing like a homemade noodle homemade noodles
are so different than the noodles that you buy at the store they're almost a
meal in themselves by everybody I hope you have a great day and I'll see you
guys tomorrow and make some chicken noodle soup with some homemade noodles
fired bye