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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put the chicken into a dish, pour the sauce over, and take stewed mushrooms to table on a separate dish. Time, one hour and a half. Probable cost of chicken, 2s. 6d. Sufficient for four persons. Chicken, Fricasseed (another way). — Take the remains of a cold chicken ; cut it into neat joints. Make some good gra\y by simmering the- trimmings in some good stock, with an onion stuck with three cloves, a bunch of savoury herbs, a bay-leaf, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for about an hour. Strain the gravy ; take a breakfast-cupful of it, and thicken it with a tea-spoonful of flouChicken, Fricasseed (another way)r ; let this boil, then put in the chicken. Draw the saucepan from the tire for a minute or two, and mix a little of the sauce with the yolks of two eggs and a cupful of cream ; pour the mix- ture into the saucepan, let it get thoroughly hot, but on no account allow it to boil, or the eggs ■w'ill curdle. Serve with the sauce poiu-ed over the chicken. Time, one hour and a half. Probable cost, 9d., exclusive of the cold chicken. Sufficient for three or four persons. Chicken, Fried. — Take the remains of a cold chicken, cut it into neat joints, salt and pepper these rather highly, and strew- over them finely-chopped onion and parsley. Cover them with oil, and squeeze over them the juice of a lemonFried Chicken. Turn the pieces every now and then, and let them remain until they have imbibed the flavour, then dip the pieces in flour, and CHI ( 130) CHx fry them in hot butter or lard. Put a break- fast-cupful of good stock into a saucepan, with a moderate-sized onion stuck with two cloves, a bay-leaf, a little salt and pepper, the juice of a lemon, and a little parsley and tarragon chop- ped small. Let this sauce boil well, and then strain ii. Serve the ^^ieces of chicken piled \ipon a dish; pour the sauce round, and serve with toasted sippets. Time : to make the gravy, one horn- and a half ; to fry the pieces ©f chicken, ten minutes. Probable cost, 4d., exclusive of the chicken. Sufficient for three persons. Chicken, Fried (another way).— Take the remains of a cold chicken, cut it into neat pieces, brush a little oil over each piece, and strew over it, rather thickly, salt and curry powder. Melt a little butter in a frying-pan, and fry some onions, cut into thin strips about half an inch long and the eighth of an inch wide. Fry them slowly, and keep them in the pan until they are a dark-brown colour, and quite dry. They will require a little care, as the)' must on no account be burnt. Fry the chicken, strew the onion over it, and serve with slices of lemon. Time to fry the chicken, ten minutes. Allow two or three pieces of chicken ! for each person. Probable cost, 3d., exclusive of the cold chicken.