Recipe - Butter Balls Chicken Soup

3 pound Chicken
One half cup Chopped celery leaves
1 Bay leaf
10 Peppercorns
1 teaspoon Salt
5 cup Hot water
1 cup Diced celery
2 tablespoon Chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoon Butter
5 tablespoon Flour (up to 6)
One fourth teaspoon Salt

Cut chicken into portions, place in a saucepan with celery leaves, bay
leaf, peppercorns, the one teaspoon salt and the water. Bring to a boil,
cover and simmer over low heat for about one hour, or until chicken is
tender. Strain, then return broth to saucepan. Cut chicken into small
pieces, add to broth with celery and parsley, then simmer.

To make the butter balls, cream butter, add eggs and beat. Gradually add
flour and the One fourth tsp salt. Beat hard until whole is like a very soft
batter. Drop by One fourth or One half teaspoonfuls into broth, cover and let stand 5
minutes over low heat.

NOTES : The butter balls, very tiny dumplings, are called rivels in the
West and dropsley in Ontario. This combination makes a perfect light
supper. I sometimes replace the chicken soup in this recipe with a can of
consomme and an equal amount of water.
Recipe by: The Canadiana Cookbook/Mme Jehane Benoit/1970 Posted to TNT
Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Bill & Leilani Devries
devriesb@cyberbeach.net on Aug 27, 1997