Boiled Chicken

Ingredients

• a nice young chicken of 3 or 4 pounds
• Y^ tablespoonful salt
• 2 onions
• a bonquet
• 1Ys ounce butter
• 1 heaping tablespoonful flour
• iVt cupful of the chicken broth
• Vt even teaspoonful salt
• y^ teaspoonful nutmeg
• the yolks of 2 eggs
• Vs cupful of cream
• Ys ounce butter
• 1 tablespoonful lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Singe, draw, and wash the chicken in cold water; truss it nicely.

2. 2

   Place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water, add salt, onions, and bouquet; cover and boil until tender.

3. 3

   Prepare a cream sauce by melting butter, adding flour, cooking briefly, then adding chicken broth, salt, and nutmeg; boil for 5 minutes.

4. 4

   Mix yolks with cream, add to sauce, then add butter and lemon juice.

5. 5

   Serve chicken on a warm dish with sauce in a bowl.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 255. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Chicken. — Procure a nice young chicken of 3 or 4 pounds ; singe, draw, and wash it in cold water ; truss it nicely ; 880 POULTRY. place it in a saucepan ; cover with boiling water ; add Y^ tablespoon- f ul salt, 2 onions, and a bonquet ; cover and boil till tender. In the meantime prepare a cream sauce as follows : Place a saucepan with lYs ounce butter over the fire, add 1 heaping tablespoonf ul flour, stir and cook 2 minutes ; then add iVt cupful of the chicken broth, Vt even teaspoonful salt, y^ teaspoonf ul nutmeg ; boil 5 minutes; mix the yolks of 2 eggs with Vs cupful of cream, add slowly to the sauce ; add Ys ounce butter and 1 tabl^spoonful lemon juice. Serve the chicken on a warm dish and the sauce in a sauce bowl. Caper, egg, or shrimp sauce may be served with the chicken. Chicken Potpie. — Gut a well-cleaned young chicken into 10 pieces; clean and place the feet, neck, and giblets in a saucepan; cover with 3 pints of cold water ; add V, teaspoonful salt, and when beginning to boil, 1 onion and a bouquet ; boil 1 hour. In the mean^ time peel and cut into quarters 6 medium-sized potatoes, into slices 2 good-sized white onions, and 2 ounces salt pork cut into slices. Mix 1 tablespoonf ul salt

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