Chicken a la Creci

Ingredients

• half a pound of bacon
• twelve shallots
• twelve button mushrooms
• two large carrots
• twelve chestnuts
• the flesh of a chicken cut into fillets
• a tea-spoonful of salt
• half a tea-spoonful of pepper
• a blade of mace
• a glass of Madeira, or any white wine

Method

1. 1

   Fry the bacon, then add shallots, mushrooms, carrots, and chestnuts.

2. 2

   Add the chicken fillets, cover with gravy, and stew gently for 15 minutes.

3. 3

   Add salt, pepper, mace, and wine, simmer for 5 minutes, then serve with the chicken and vegetables.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 355. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken (a la Creci). — Cut half a pound of bacon into dice, and fry these lightly, then put them into a saucepan, and with them twelve shallots, twelve button mushreoms, two large carrots cut into pieces the size and shape of a walnut, and twelve chestnuts roasted and peeled. Let these be already dressed when they are put into the saucepan. Add the flesh of a chicken cut into fillets, cover it with good brown gravy, and stew it gently for a quarter of an hour, when a tea-spoonful of salt, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, a blade of mace pounded, and a glass of Madeira, or any white wine

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