Casuela

Ingredients

• a chicken
• a clove of garlic
• a large tablespoonful of lard
• one quart of water
• half a cupful of green peas
• half a cupful of string beans
• half a cupful of grains of corn
• three potatoes cut into bits
• one tablespoonful of rice
• the white of one egg
• one mashed potato
• the yolk of the egg
• a tablespoonful of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Fry chicken with garlic in lard for ten minutes.

2. 2

   Add water, peas, beans, and corn; boil for 1.5 hours.

3. 3

   Add potatoes, rice, salt, pepper, and egg white; boil for 45 minutes.

4. 4

   Mix mashed potato with egg yolk and vinegar, strain broth into it, then add chicken and other ingredients.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907) by Joe Tilden, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Casuela Cut a chicken into small pieces and fry it with a clove of garlic in a large tablespoonful of lard, for ten minutes. Then add one quart of water, half a cupful each of green peas, string beans and grains of corn, and boil one and one-half hours. Add three potatoes cut into bits, one tablespoonful of rice, salt, gepper and the white of one egg. Boil for three-quarters of an hour 56 CHICKEN AND GAME longer, then remove from the fire. In a tureen mix one mashed potato with the yolk of the egg and a tablespoonful of vinegar

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