I have made chicken soup but never matzoh ball soup (I’ve ordered it in restaurants and my daughter has made it a few times).
I looked at recipes on Smitten Kitchen and Serious Eats. Now I’ve decided to make Cecilia Chang’s wonderful chicken broth when my sprained knee gets better. In the meantime I have bought Streit’s matzoh meal, looked for seltzer, bought Perrier … hope that’s correct.
Shmaltz is the secret ingredient! Floaters or cannonballs, I love them all. You can buy Empire chicken fat frozen in many grocery stores, I currently keep a small stash of fatworks chicken fat. I do boil my matzoh balls in minor’s chicken base, you can certainly cook them in your chicken soup if you’re not picky about the clarity of your served soup. And a nice dash of nutmeg in the matzoh balls is great.