1 chicken, cut in pieces
1 sm. bag carrots
1 lg. onion
5 stalks celery
2 or more tbsp. parsley
1 c. sm. noodles or alphabets

Cook chicken, celery, carrots and onion in a 4 quart pot (fill pot 3/4 full with water) until chicken is very tender. Remove chicken from pot and discard skin. Cut chicken from bone and cut it into bite size pieces. Return chicken to soup. Bring back to boil and add noodles or alphabets and parsley. Skim fat from soup before returning noodles if desired.