Cock-a-Leekie Soup

Ingredients:

•     1 chicken about 3lb
•     10 chopped leeks
•     1 large chopped onion
•     4 finely chopped carrots
•     Pearl Barley
•     Ground pepper and salt
•     Vegetable stock

Clean out the chicken and place in a pot of water which is boiled and allowed to simmer for an hour. Add some of the leeks and half of the onion and some vegetable stock. After about an hour remove the chicken and keep the stock. Take the chicken meat of the bone. After straining the stock into a pot, add the remainder of the leeks and onion and add the barley. Cook for a further thirty minutes. Season to taste. Add the chicken meat to the soup and then serve.