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1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Chicken Patties, — Pick meat from one or two boiled chickens, cut into long strips then across into small dice. Put in sauce- pan, seas.on with wnite pepper or cayenne, a grating of nutmeg, the ]uice of half a lemon, salt and tablespoon butter. Pour over it a pint white sauce to each pint chicken, gently simmer at back of range or on a brick on top of range till time to serve ; then fill heated Patty Shells with it. Or add to the diced meat from one chicken a cup each cream and the broth it was cooked in, butter size of an egg mixed with tablespoon flour and simmer gently until it begins to thicken ; add beaten yolks of two eggs, pepper, salt, little grated nut- meg and lemon peel, and just before serving theguice of a lemon. Fill shfells. Chicken-pie. — Cook four or five potatoes with the chicken when stewing, before it is qjuite done, with a seasoning of salt ; then put alternate layers of chicken and sliced potatoes, in the pan or dish, with the bits of dough, and cover with a crust ; make an opening in the center and put in the liquor from the chicken. If new potatoes are used they do not need to be first cooked. A litle chopped pars- lev or celery improves the pie, and always add a pinch of sugar. Some put in a pint of sweet cream just before the pie is done, whea Opened. l©t cook a miuutc aud serve. Some line bot- tom of dish with crust, put in oven till partially baked, then line thetsides, fill, cover and bake ; it is always difiicultto bake the crust on the bottom of dish unless this plan is adopted. A better plan is without bottom crust as above. Elaborate molds are ^ ^"^p^-^ made for pies, such as the closed mold given ; the ^<fljBSS^^k< crust being placed in it after it is buttered, and then ^^^ij™^^ pressed well into the indendations ; fill and cover as cwcken Me, above. When done, take out the wires fastening the sides together, and remove pie to a hot platter, and serve at once. For another Panned Pie, chop pieces of roast, or any cold chicken in about half- inch dice, add any oits of dressing and moisten with gravy, if any^ adding hot water as needed ; stew till well heated, season, and^lace in pie pan lined with a plain paste, cover with a Puff Paste and bake. A little Chilli Sauce or any chopped pickle may be added. POULTRY. 537 Chicken Pot-pie". — Grease a deep pot with lard, roll out enough plain crust to line it, cutting out the bottom; as the pieces of chick- en are put in, strew in flour, salt and pepper, a few pieces of crust rolled tnin, and a few parboiled and sliced potatoes : cover this with water, and then with paste with a slit in the middle. Cook slowly two hoursChicken Pot-pie, adding hot water if necesssry. Veal and Lamb may be made in same way. Some leave the lining whole, cut out two or three rounds of paste or dough a little smaller than the ket- tle and put in with layers of chicken and seasoning at bottom and between, adding a half cup water before putting on top crust, and bake in moderate oven three-quarters of an hour. Serve turned out on dish with sauce-boat of gravy made as for Chicken Pie. An- other way of preparing is to cook the chicken in three pints water ; first cooking tablespoon butter, a large onion and three slices each carrot and turnip, all cut fine, half an hour, stirring constantly, then pulp them through a colander into the kettle with the chicken.