Mumford Chicken Soup 

My worn-out "More With Less Cookbook", @1976, I thought had what I do with chicken - 'Two Meals for 4 People from a Three-Pound Chicken", page 180.  So, as Monte says, I modified again a good recipe into what our family likes.  The 25th Anniversary Edition, @ 2000, has the same recipe and a note printed in from a woman who received the book as a Christmas present in 1979 of her cultnal adventures and resource on nutritious eating and the challenge of living more responsibly.

The original recipe is a Chicken Stew then Chicken Soup.

My variation is Roast Chicken and vegetables, Chicken Soup and, depending on how many were eating either of those two meals, a Thai Green Chicken Curry.

So the Mumford Chicken Soup:

Cover with water in large kettle:  1 chicken/turkey carcass and any leftover bones, vegetables, gravy etc from roast dinner.  

Cook one hour, strain the soup, then add and simmer covered for another hour:  diced/sliced vegetables suitable for soup or preferred for a total quantity of 4-6 cups: tomatoes, celery with leaves, silverbeet, onion, turnips, carrots, parsnips, leeks.  While vegetables cook, take any remaining meat from bones.  Determine how clear a soup you want/need for next step.  For thick soup, blend vegetables and put back in kettle - adding ½ c of rice or add 2 c cubed potatoes for last 15 minutes or add one of a variety of pastas - shells, fettuccini - and cook for needed time.  For clear soup or broth, strain again, but use strained vegetables in a curry or some other way.  

'Healing Chicken Soup':  For a sick person needing clear broth, once egg can be added to diet - beat egg and stir in after soup is strained or as reheating.  Then as person can take additional foods, add potatoes or rice or pasta; then vegetables - either blended or cut fine - until 'regular'/thick chicken soup.  I don't use tomatoes in soup for a sick person - usually only onion, carrots, celery, silverbeet. I didn't grow up with parsnips, turnips or leeks and they might be fine!  I love sweet potato but never think of it when making soup!