looking for a recipe 'chinina' (Duck Blood Soup)

Subject: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: GUEST,American
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 05:37 PM

It's a Polish soup made with Duck blood. I dont know if i spelled it correctly. The dill pickle soup recipe i got is GREAT!!!!! thanx.

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 05:52 PM

Try this: Czarnina, Polish Duck soup

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: Hollowfox
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 06:34 PM

There's also a hilarious piece about this soup in "One More Time: the best of Mike Royko" (University of Chicago Press, 1999). For those not in the USA, Royko was one of the best newspapermen ever. If they'd shown us his articles as examples in English class, we students would have understood essay writing with a lot less grief. He lived in Chicago all his life, and understood Polish delicacies like this all too well.

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 06:43 PM

With you all the way 'Fox......Royko was a riot and had a truly fine style. Best, he treated the words and the truth he saw with respect, but in a wonderfully disrespectful way. Great man and I believe one of a kind.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: GUEST,hubublabaloo
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 08:39 PM

i need help finding a recipe for chinina soup please because my grandfather died before i got to meet him and chinina was one of his absolute favorite foods ever and i just wanted to try it even though it sounds totally one of the most disgusting things i have ever heard of in my lifetime all i know is that there is DUCK BLOOD in this recipe

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: GUEST,hubublabaloo
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 08:42 PM

PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP ME FIND A RECIPE FOR CHININA

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: bobad
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 09:17 PM

* 1 live duck
    * 1/2 cup vinegar
    * 1 stalk celery, chopped
    * a few sprigs parsley
    * 1 small onion, chopped
    * bouquet garni of 4 whole allspice, 4 whole cloves, and 4 whole peppercorns, tied into a piece of cloth
    * 2 cups dried mixed fruit, made up of about 10 dried pitted prunes, 1/2 cup dried cherries or raisins, and dried apples and/or pears (some people don't add this dried fruit to the soup, but it is traditional)
    * 2 Tablespoons flour
    * 1/2 cup sour cream
    * 1 teaspoon sugar
    * salt to taste

Garnish: raw potato dumplings (Make a stiff dough of 2 cups grated (and drained) raw potatoes, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 beaten eggs, 1½ cups flour, and ½ cup dry bread crumbs)

Kill the duck; chop off its head. Catch the blood in a glass or pottery bowl. Stir in the vinegar to keep it from clotting; set aside in fridge to cool. In the meantime, pluck and dress the duck.

Place the duck carcass, including the neck, heart, liver, and gizzards into a large stockpot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Skim the stock, reduce heat to a simmer. Add the celery, parsley, onion, and the small spice bag to the stock. Cook slowly until the duck meat is done - about 2 hours. Remove the spice bag from the soup and discard. Lift the duck carcass from the soup and pull the meat off the bones; put the meat back into the soup. Add the dried fruit and cook about another half hour.

Blend the flour into the sour cream, then slowly mix into the blood-vinegar mixture. Slowly (or it will curdle) add about 1 cup of the hot soup stock to the blood-vinegar-flour-sour cream mixture, stir well, and add it all to the stock pot. Add the sugar, add salt to taste, and if necessary add a bit more vinegar. It should have a slight sweet/sour 'nip' to it.

When ready to serve, drop the still potato dumpling dough by small spoonfuls into the boiling soup stock or salted water. They are done as soon as they float to the top.

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: bobad
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 09:29 PM

CZARNINA -- POLISH DUCK SOUP
Categories: Ethnic, Soups
       Yield: 1 servings

            Fowl trimming and blood
   1 1/2 lb Spare ribs
       1    Stalk celery
       2 bn Parsley (small)
       1 sm Onion
       4    Allspice buds
       4    Whole cloves
            Salt to taste
       3    Whole peppers
      10    Dried prunes
            Dried apples or pears
      15    Cherries or raisins
       2 tb Flour
       1 c Sweet cream
       1 ts Sugar
    1/2 c Vinegar

   Put vinegar into glass or crockery bowl (not metal)
   and into this catch the blood when killing the duck or
   goose and stir to avoid coagulation. Fresh pigs blood
   may also be used. Cover the fowl trimmings and spare
   ribs with water, bring to a boil and skim. Put spices,
   celery, onion and parsley into a sack and add to soup.
   Cook slowly until meat is almost done, about 2 hours.
   Remove spice sack add fruit and cook for 1/2 hour more.
   Blend flour with 1/2 cup of the blood mixture, add 3 T
   soup stock, and pour into soup, stirring constantly.
   Add sugar and cream and bring to a boil. Serve with
   egg noodles or potato dumplings.

Subject: RE: Help: looking for a recipe 'chinina'
From: Peace
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 07:36 PM

Does it HAVE to be a Polish duck?

Subject: RE: looking for a recipe 'chinina' (Duck Blood Soup)
From: GUEST,vadair
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 12:35 PM

Small jar & vinegar (couple teaspoons) to catch blood when duck is killed. Do not refrigerate. You want this room temperature.

Ask for duck to be cut up for soup.
2 small apples pealed
2 celery sticks
about 1/2 box of prunes
1 whole onion
salt and peper to taste
6-7 tablespoons flour
1 bag of egg noodles

Put the duck in a large pot of water. Bring to a boil. Skim off fat. Add pealed apples, celery, and onion. cook until meat is tender. About 3-4 hours. Take out all the bones and cut up the meat and put back in pot.

Take the blood, add 6-7 tablespoons of flour in blender. Also put in about 1/2 cup of soup liquid. Blend all ingredients. TURN OFF THE SOUP--REMOVE FROM HEAT. Then SLOWLY, add the gravy mixture, a little bit at a time, stirring constantly. (this is the make sure it doesn't curdle.) Once all the gravy is in the pot, turn the heat on and bring to a boil. Cook the egg noodles and add to the soup as you eat it.

This receipe is from my husband's grandmother.

Subject: RE: looking for a recipe 'chinina' (Duck Blood Soup)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 03:05 PM

I had czarnina at the Polish Village Restaurant in Hamtramck last summer, and I really enjoyed it - although I understand their recipe may not really use blood.
There was a Detroit fire engine and two Detroit police cars parked outside - supper time for the Men in Blue....

-Joe-