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La cuisine creole

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
over the veal a slice of fat ham ; on this place your chick- ens ; place hard-boiled yolks of eggs in among the chick- en. Take half a pint of white sauce, made with butter, flour, and milk or water; pour this over the chickens, season with a cup of chopped mushrooms, some parsley, pepper and sait a good pie can be made if you omit the mushrooms and ham, but not so rich as this recipe) ; now cover your pie with a good pasteChicken Pie a la Reine, and bake for an hour or two. PLAIN CHICKBN PIE. ïake two nice chickens, or more if they are small, eut them up as for f rying, and put them in a pot to stew with some slices of fat méat. Let them cook for half an hour, then add a few onions and four Irish potatoes sliced small, so that in cooking they may be thoroughly dissolved in the gravy. Season with pepper, sait, a little parsley, and a quarter of a pound of sweet butter. When it is cooked well there should be gravy enough to cover the chickens. If you want it very nice, beat up two eggs, and stir into the stew with half a pint of milkPlain Chicken Pie. Line a five-quart pan with a crust made like soda biscuit, only more shortening; put in the chickens and gravy; then cover with a top crust. Bake until the crust is done and you will hâve a good chicken pie. CHICKBN POT PIE. Cut up a chicken, parboil it, save the liquor it was boiled in. Wash ont the kettle, or take another one, and in it fry three or four slices of fat sait pork, and put it in the bottom of the dish in whîch the pie is to be made; then put in the chicken and the liquor, also a LA GVI8INE CREOLE. 71 pièce of butter the size of a teacup,Chicken Pot Pie and sprinkle in some pepper ; cover with a lîght crust and bake an hour. BONED TUBKEY. Chop up one pound of white veal, with a pound of fat bacon; season high with chopped mushrooms, parsley, pepper, sait, and a bunch of sweet herbs ; when chopped fine, pound them in a mortar or pass them through a sausage grinder ; add to this the yolks of three eggs, and place it by in a basin for use. Peel a pound of truffle», and eut up a boiled smoked tongue, a pound of fat bacon, or a pound of calf s udder or veal. Next bone a turkey, or two fine capons, or f owls, and draw the skin f rom the legs and pinions inside. Take the turkey on a napkin — it is now limp and boneless — eut slices from the thick breast and place it on the skin where it seems to be thin, distribute the fiesh of the f owl as evenly as you can on the skin ; season it slightly with pepper and sait. Spread a layer of the prepared force-meat in the basin, let it be an inch thick; then place the cut-up tongue, bacon and veal, lay a row of chopped truffles and a layer of the force-meat until the skin is covered, or as f ull as it will hold. It must be sewed up the back, the ends tied, like a cushion, or roly-poly; to do this you must butter a cloth and put it tightly over the turkey skin, as it will be quite too tender fo stand the cooking, etc., unless supported by a napkin. Tie it up tightly and place it in a round stew-pan with the bones and any trîmmings of veal or poultry at hand, add to it two boiled calf 's feet, or an ounce of gélatine, two onions stuck with four cloves, a bunch of parsley, six green onions, a bunch of sweet basil, and a bunch of thyme, two blades of mace. 72 LA CUISINE CREOLE.