Smoked Matzo Ball Soup

Ingredients

• 2 whole chickens
• 4 yellow onions, unpeeled and quartered
• 4 garlic heads, unpeeled and cut in half crosswise
• 6 carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch slices
• 3 1/2 gallons water
• 1/2 cup black peppercorns
• 4 tbs. canola oil or chicken fat
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup matzo meal
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 bunches of ramp tops, roughly chopped, or 2 bunches of spinach, trimmed and leaves chopped
• salt and freshly ground pepper. to taste