Boiled Fowls, with Golden Rain

Ingredients

• two eggs
• an ounce of butter
• an ounce of flour
• half a pint of milk
• a gill of cream
• a carrot
• an onion
• a bunch of herbs

Method

1. 1

   Truss the fowls firmly for boiling.

2. 2

   Put them breast downwards into fast-boiling water with a carrot, an onion, and a bunch of herbs.

3. 3

   Boil for one minute, then simmer gently for about 45 minutes to an hour.

4. 4

   To make the sauce, boil two eggs for ten minutes, cool, and keep the yolks.

5. 5

   Melt butter, stir in flour, add milk, and thicken.

6. 6

   Add cream and diced egg white.

7. 7

   Cover fowls with sauce, rub yolks through a sieve on top, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 255. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Fotvls, with Golden Rain. — Truss the fowls firmly for boiling. Put them breast downwards into fast-boiling water, which has in it a carrot, an onion, and a bunch of herbs. Boil for one minute, then draw the saucepan back and simmer very gently for about three-quarters of an hour, or for an hour if the birds are large. In this particular instance the birds are to be covered entirely with sauce, therefore it does not signify very much whether or not they are very white when boiled; otherwise they would look a better colour if they were wrapped in kitchen paper, thickly buttered, whilst boiling. It is evident, however, that the liquor could be more satisfactorily used if the paper were omitted. To make the Sauce. — Boil two eggs for ten minutes, let them go cold, then throw the white part into cold water to preserve the colour, and leave the yolks untouched. Melt an ounce of butter in a stewpan, stir in, off the fire, an ounce of flour, and beat the mixture till smooth with the back of a wooden spoon. Add half a pint of milk, and stir the sauce over the fire till it thickens ; then add a gill of cream

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