Super soups: start with chicken broth

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Chicken broth, whether homemade or canned, helps the various flavors of soup ingredients to combine well. A recipe for defatted chicken broth is presented, along with several soup recipes, including recipes for scallop and corn chowder and butternut squash soup with ginger cream.

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The spice-lover's sweetener: apples

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Apples are delicious eaten right off the tree, but they also make good ingredients. Recipes that make use of apples include Pork with Apples and Green Chiles, Apricot-Maple Applesauce, Graham Cracker-Apple Cake, Apple-Cranberry Crisp, and Apple and Dried Cherry Chutney.

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The lucky apothecary and the penalty of the peach

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In 1782, Karl Wilhelm Scheele synthesized a poison from bitter almonds, cherries and peaches that came to be known as cyanide. It was a poison known since antiquity, and it eventually came to be used in the first gas chamber execution in Nevada in 1924.

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