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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
of lemon- juice, and a glass of port or claretChicken, Ragout of. Let it boil a minute or two. Put the meat on a dish, pour the hot gravy over it, garnish with toasted sippets, and serve very hot. If liked, chilli vinegar can be substituted for the lemon-juice. The remains of cold poultry may be served in the same way, but the meat will not be so succulent as it would be if it were only partially roasted before it was stewed. Time, varying with the size and age of the bird. Chicken, ^Rissoles of. — Cut very young spring chicken in small pieces. Roll out squares of puff paste very thin, wrap the pieces of chicken in them, and fry brown. Put in a deep dish, cover with vinegar and salad oil, add salt and pepper, and let stand one hour. Prepare egg batter, dip each piece of chicken in it, drop in boiling lard, and brown. Take up on a flat dish, garnish with parsleyRissoles of Chicken, and serve hot. Chicken Salad in Green Peppers. — Prepare a chicken salad of equal parts of celery and the white meat of roast or boiled chicken. Both should be shredded fine. Just before they are to go to table, season them with pepper and salt, and mix with them enough mayonnaise dressing to coat each fragment thoroughly. Have ready good-sized green peppers, from which the blossom end has been sliced off. Take out the contents of the peppers, stand them upright on the stem ends, and fill them with the chicken salad, capping each with a teaspoonful of thick, yellow mayon- naiChicken Salad in Green Peppersse. Place them on a napkin laid on a platter ; or, if you serve them on individual plates, have a little white doily under each pepper. See also Salads. Chicken Souffle. See Souffles. Chicken Soup. See Soups. Chicken Stew. — Take two young chickens, cut up, put in a saucepan Chicken, Supreme of POULTRY Duck, Roast with water to cover and a little salt, let stew until tender, add a table- spoonful of minced parsley and a teaspoonful of minced onion. Soak two pods of red pepper in water, strain the juice into the stew, add a table- spoonful of butter rolled in flour. Fill a vegetable-dish with boiled riceChicken Stew, lay the chicken on top,andpour the gravy over. Chicken, Supreme of. — Cut cold roast or boiled chicken into neat slices, lay it in a shallow dish, and pour over it salad oil in the proportion of a table-spoonful of oil to e^ery cupful of the chicken. Let it lie in this half an hour. Cook together a table-spoon- ful each of butter and flour until they bubble ; turn on them half a pint of cream and half a teaspoonful of onion- juice; add the chicken and what oil has not been absorbed ; let all get hot, and season with white pepper, half a teaspoonful of ordinary salt, and a quarter of a teaspoonful of celery salt. Serve. This may be cooked in a chafing-dish.