Chicken soup with dumplings

This is of course the ultimate comfort food - ‘Jewish penicillin we used to call it, to honour the fact that the Jews make the best chicken soup. The difficulty lies nowadays in finding a proper boiling fowl. When I was young, a chicken that was past laying would be knocked on the head, probably at about two or three years old, and used to make the most delicious broth. Today, eating chickens are killed at five weeks unless you are very lucky and get one that’s nine weeks old. My friend,