Boiled Chicken with Salt Pork

Ingredients

• Boil 5 fowls, time according to age
• a pound of salt pork with them

Method

1. 1

   Boil the fowls and salt pork together, then make a cream sauce.

2. 2

   Serve a joint of fowl with sauce poured over and a small slice of streaked pork as garnish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 306. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled chicken with salt pork (5 /owls I 25, pork 12, and sauce 140 cents.) Roast beef (3 ribs short, 7 lbs 90 cents.) Lyonaise of liver with fried crusts (10 orders, 12 cents.) Queen fritters, vanilla sauce (65 cents.) Browned sweet potatoes 25, lima beans 6, corn 10, cabbage 6, potatoes 13 (60 COOKING FOR PROFIT. ^55 ents.) English suet pudding (29 cents.) Peach pie {5 pies, 40 cents.) Blackberry meringue (55 cents.) Apples, nuts, raisins, cheese, condi- ments (54 cents.) Milk, cream 66, coffee, tea, sugar, bread, butter 52 (118 cents.) Total, $7 73; 54 persons; 14^^ cents a plate. 103&— Corn and Tomato Soup. One quart green corn cut off the cob, one quart tomatoes chopped small, one pint mixed vegetables cut small in five quarts seasoned soup stock. Boil up and season to taste. 1036 -Halibut, Maryland Style. Halibut steak cut thin, breaded in corn meal and fried in a small quantity of salt pork fat— not immersed but in a frying pan and turned over to brown. Serve a slice of the dry fried salt pork on top of the fish and a thin slice of fried hominy in a separate dish. 1037— Fried Hominy. Fine hominy made into mush same as oatmeal. Cut thin slices when cold, divide them in diamond shapes, flour on both sides and fry li^ht colored. Serve with fish and chicken. 1038— Boihd Chicken with Salt Poik. blocks; cover with a lid and let them simmer together half an hour. Pour off the grease, shake a basting spoon of flour into the pan and stir until the liver is coated with it; pour in soup stock or water barely to cover; salt and pepper, and let stew half an hour longer. Bordei the dishes with minced eggs and parsley or croutons or potato balls. Boil 5 fowls, time according to age, and a pound of salt pork with the

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