Sore Mouth Soup

Ingredients

• 2 turkey drumsticks, skinned
• 6 cups chicken broth (add water if you don't have enough broth to cover drumsticks)
• 4 whole cloves
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 cups mushrooms, sliced
• 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 4 cups chicken broth
• 1 1/2 cups mushrooms, sliced
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 3 1/2 ounces fideos noodles

Directions

1. 1

   Simmer turkey drumsticks in chicken broth with whole cloves until cooked through and very tender, about an hour.

2. 2

   Degrease, strain and reserve broth to use for the rest of the soup, or save for a different soup later (I find that the cloves flavor the turkey enough that I don't use the broth for this soup; but it's rich and delicious used in any other soup).

3. 3

   Remove turkey from the bones and shred.

4. 4

   In a large soup pot, saute onions, garlic and mushrooms in olive oil; do not brown.

5. 5

   Add chicken broth, thyme, nutmeg and turkey meat; simmer together for 30 minutes.

6. 6

   Remove 1/2 cup of soup broth from the pan in a small bowl; whisk dissolve the 2 tablespoons of flour in the hot broth and return to the soup pot.

7. 7

   In the meantime, cook the fideos in 1-1/2 cups of water until done (following package directions); drain fideos, adding their cooking water to the soup.

8. 8

   Simmer another 30 minutes, then add fideos and heat through, about another 15 minutes or until soup is thickened slightly.