Brodo di Pollo

No book about Italian grandmothers would be complete without a recipe for chicken broth, the delicious base for all manner of soups, risotti, and chicken and vegetable dishes. New mothers in Le Marche once ate tiny pasta squares floating in chicken broth made from chickens furnished by friends and relatives. The chickens themselves weighed only 2 pounds, but they produced fresh eggs for breakfast that were so delicious that they remain embedded in the memories of many women to this day.