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European and American cuisine

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Bagotktant. — Place a saucepan over the fire with 1 ounce of butter and 1 tablespoonf ul flour, stir and cook 3 minutes ; add '/« pint boiling milk, a small bouquet, Y, teaspoonful nutmeg, 1 gill of mushroom liquor, 12 whole peppers, 1 even teaspoonful salt, cook 6 minutes, then strain into a clean saucepan. Season 1 chicken liver with salt and pepper, fry it 5 minutes in butter ; stew also Yt V^^^ of canned mushrooms 10 minutes in 1 ounce butter ; then cut into small pieces ; cut also the liver fine, add to this 1 pint of cooked chicken meat ; add the 3 ingredients to the sauce ; add from 2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of cream. Then fill the preparation into 6 table shells ; sprinkle over some grated bread crumbs with a few drops of butter, and bake till light brown in hot oven about 10 minutes. Chicken h la Poulette. — Place a well-cleaned young chicken 8 pounds in weight in a saucepan over the fire, cover with boiling water, add 2 onions, 1 bouquet, and Ys tablespoonf ul salt ; cover and cook slowly. When done take out the chicken, remove skin and CHICKEN. 886 bones, cut the white meat into Ys-inch pieces. Place a saucepan with 2 ounces butter over the fire, add 2 tablespoonfuls flour, stir and cook 3 minutes, then add gradually 1 pint of chicken broth, 1 teaspoonful salt, Y^ teaspoonful nutmeg, and a small bouquet; cook 5 minutes. Strain the sauce into a clean saucepan, add 1 gill of fine-cut mushrooms, 1 tablespoonf ul lemon juice, cook 5 minutes ; mix Ys pii^t of cream with the yolks of 4 eggsChicken Liver Timbales and 1 teaspoonful fine-chopped parsley, add it to the sauce, stir for a few minutes over the fire, without boiling ; then draw the saucepan to side of stove, add the fine-cut chicken meat and the sweetbreads mentioned be- low. Place 1 pair of large sweetbreads in a saucepan, cover with cold water, add 1 teaspoonful salt, and boil 5 minutes ; remove, and cool in cold water. Place a saucepan with 1 tablespoonful butter over the fire, drain and dry the sweetbreads, add them to the butter, season with 1 even teaspoonful seasoning salt, cover and cook slowly till done ; then remove and cut them into pieces, and use as directed above. Serve in small fancy bowls with finger rolls. How to cooIe Old Chickens.— Singe, draw, and wash a chicken of 3 or 4 years old ; put it in a kettle over the fire ; cover completely with boiling water ; add Yt tablespoonful salt, 2 onions, and a bouquet ; draw the kettle to side of stove and simmer gently from 3 to 4 hours, or until a fork will easily penetrate through the second joint ; then remove the kettle from the fire, let the chicken remain 20 minutes in the broth ; take it out, season with 1 even tablespoonful salt, 1 even teaspoonful pepper evenly distributed inside and outside over the chicken. Then place a saucepan large enough to hold the chicken over the fire with 4 ounces of larding pork ; fry to a delicate brown ; add 2 ounces butter and the chicken ; keep turning the chicken until it has obtained a fine brown color ; then add Ys pii^t of the chicken broth, cover and cook slowly 30 minutes; transfer the chicken to a hot dish ; remove some of the fat from the gravy; mix 1 tablespoonful cornstarch with Ys cupful cold water, add it to the gravy, stir and cook 3 minutes ; add sufficient 386 POULTRY. Silan Curry of Cold Chicken