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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

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.
Draw and truss two young chickens and rub them thor- oughly with the juice of one lemon. Tie two or three slices of fat pork or bacon over the breast and wrap them up in a nicely floured cloth. Place them in a stewpan with one quart of consommé. Bring them to a boil and then let them simmer gently until done. Do not let them boil any longer than is necessary. To test: Try the wings with a fork. Let them stand in the pot for fifteen minutes. Have a nice beef tongue boiled tender. Let this also stand in its liquor. Have some fine spinach rubbed through a puree sieve, seasoned well with pepper, salt, butter, and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Heat it thoroughly and let it stand in the saucepan. Set your boiled POULTRT AND GAME 187 fowl in the centre of a platter and put the spinach around ìt. Cut the tongue in the shape of cutlets and lay the pieces on top of the spinach around the platter. Make a sauce of the stock in which the chicken was cooked. To make the sauce, melt one tablespoonful of butter. When it comes to a boil, add one tablespoonful of flour. Let this come to a boil and then add one cup and a half of stock. Boil fìve minutes, season to taste, and add one glass of Madeira wine. Pour some of the sauce over the chicken. Serve the rest in a sauce- boat. The chickens may be carved before you dish them, placing them together on the platter, or they may be sent to the table whole. Greamed Chicken Clean and cut up in neat pieces two chickens or fowls. Put them on to boU. Before they are done, pare enough pota- toes to go nicely with the chickens. Cut them in pieces not more than two and a half inches in diameter, lay them on the chicken, and let them boil until done. Then take up the pota- toes in a dish by themselves. Pour a pint (or, 1£ wished, more) of sweet cream over the chickens. Let it beat and then thicken with a scant tablespoonful of flour dissolved in a smaU half cup of milk. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and fresh butter. If the cream is not rich, more butter will be required. Ohicken Oanapés Cut the meat of a cold chicken in pieces as for chicken salad. Heat in a doublé boiler a cup and a half of rich milk and in this stir a tablespoonful of corn-starch, rubbed smooth, with the same quantity of butter, half a teaspoon of minced onion and of minced parsley, and salt and white pepper to tasteBoiled Chicken and Tongue. In this sauce simmer the chicken about ten minutes, and serve on slices of bread toasted or fried in hot fat, or dipped in butter and browned in the oven. Stick in each bit of bread a tree or two of parsley. 188 MS8. SEELT'a COOK BOOK Walled Ohioken Walled Chicken