Rustic Chicken Soup

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Ingredients:
-1 whole chicken (except parson's nose)
-about 4 middle-sized carrots
-about 3 small parsnips
-about 2 small parsley roots
-about 1/4 knob celery
-bunch of chives
-bunch of parsley
-juice of a half lemon
-2 bay leaves
-salt and pepper

Cooking:
Cut the bird in halves, remove the parson's nose. Cut the rootage into rough chunks. Mince parsley and chives. Place the bird together with rootage in a big pan and cover generously with water. Add half of parsley and chives plus salt, pepper and 2 bay leaves and simmer all on medium heat for 1-2 hours (dependent on taste, size of chicken, softness of meat....). Then pass the soup through a sieve. Add juice of a half lemon to the clear soup and season with salt and pepper. Remove all parts of the chicken, like bones, skin and celery chunks (if you want). Put the meat together with chives and parsley back to the soup and simmer for about 5 minutes.

Optionally, refine with small dumplings:
-2 eggs
-flour
-salt and pepper

Stir a pasty dough from eggs, flour, salt and pepper. Then use a wet cutting board, place some dough on it, take a wet knife and strip small portions of dough into the simmering soup, do this during the last minutes of soup cooking.
Cooking time: 5-10 minutes (taste if tender!)

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