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Vanessa Rippey

This recipe originally started with Kathryn Lowery my great, great grandmother in the late 1870's.  My great Grandmother Wagner was born in 1900 so in the late to mid 1800's is when they started to make this recipe as a Christmas treat.  The recipe was cheap to make and it fed a lot of people which helped during the Great Depression.  During the Depression they would sometimes eat them as an entire meal and nothing else because they are so hearty and would feed a big family.  Since that time my grandmother, her brother and sister, and my aunts all cook this recipe during Christmas time.  They like to make this recipe because it takes hours to prepare rolling out the dough, letting them dry, and cooking them so they think of it as a treat.  It=s a tradition for my Grandmother, her brother, and his wife, who all live in San Antonio, Texas to get together and make this as a Christmas tradition.  The recipe has been passed down to each generation in my family to keep this Christmas tradition alive.
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Homemade Egg Noodles

Broth:
Boil one whole chicken.
Then add 2-3 chicken bullion cubes and Swanson=s chicken broth.
Add 1 Tbsp. of yellow food coloring.
Let broil for 1-2 hours and then put aside.

Noodles:
Start with 2 cups of flour in a bowl.