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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 legs and neck of the chicken, -with any trimmings of meat that are to be had, a large blade of mace, six or eight pepperMinced Chickencorns, a bunch of savoury herbs, a drachm of celery-seed bruised, a piece of thin lemon-rind, and a boned anchovy, into a saucepan with a quart of water, and let the hquid simmer do'svTi to half a pint. Prepare half a pint of young mushrooms, and put them into a stewpan -svith an ounce of butter rolled in flour, half a pint of the liquid strained, and half a pint of cream or milk. Put the sauce over a good fire, and stir it until it is sufficiently thick. Pour it round boiled chiekens. Time, exclusive of the stock, a quarter of an hour. Probable cost, lOd., if made with milk. Sufficient for a couple of good-sized chickens. Chicken, Panada (Invalid Cookery). — Take a fresh young chicken, and boil it, until quite tender, in sufficient water to cover it. Take off all the meat from the bones, and pound it in a mortar until quite smooth, with a little of the liquid it was boiled in, and add some salt, nutmeg, and a verj^ little grated lemon-rinChicken Panada (Invalid Cookery)d. Boil this gently for a few minutes with sufficient liqiud to make it of the consistency of thick custard. Time, twenty-five minutes to boil the chicken. Probable cost, chicken, 2s. 6d. A very little of this contains a great deal of nourishment. Chicken Patties. — Pick the meat from a cold chicken, and mince it very finely. To every six ounces of chicken allow three ounces of lean ham also minced, a piece of butter about the size of an egg rolled in flour, a small tea- cupful of cream or new milk, and the same ©f white stock, two pinches of salt, one of pejjper, a quarter of a small nutmeg gi-ated, the thin rind of a quarter of a lemon flnely grated, and a tea-spoonful of lemon-juice. A few minced mushroomsChicken Patties are a great improvement. Put these into a saucepan, and stir them gently for ten minutes, taking care that they do not bum. Line some patty-pans -with good crust. Put a piece of paper crumpled up or a crust of bread into each to support the top while baking, and place a cover of crust over it. AVhen sufficiently baked, take off the top crust, remove the bread or the paper, three-parts fiU the patty with the mixture, replace the cover, being careful not to break it, and fasten it with white of egg. CMI ( 131 ) CHI Time to bake, a quarter of an hour. Probable ccost, 2d. each. Allow one for each person. Chicken Pie. — Take two large chickens, aiid cut them into neat joints. Put the trim- mings, neck, and bones of the legs into a stewpan, with some pepper and sjilt, a blade of mace, an onion, a bunch of savoury herbs, and a little water, or stock. Let these simmer gently for one hour and a half. They are to make gravy. Line the edges of a pie-dish with a good crust. Put a layer of chicken at the bottom, then a layer of ham cut in slices, and over that som'.'^ sausage-meat or forcemeat, and some hard-boiled eggs cut in slices. Eepeat until the dish is full. Pour over all a cupful of water or white stock, and place a cover on the top. Brush over it the yolk of an eggChicken Pie. Bake in a good oven. When the pie has been in the oven about half an hour, place a piece of paper over the top to prevent the crust from being frizzled irp before the meat is sufficiently cooked.