Chicken and Macaroni

Ingredients

• 1 cup cold macaroni
• 2 cups cold chicken
• 6 mushrooms
• 1 cup cream
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 cup dried bread crumbs
• Pepper and salt
• 1 tablespoon butter

Method

1. 1

   Into a buttered baking dish put a layer of macaroni, then a layer of chicken cut in small strips.

2. 2

   Sprinkle with pepper and salt and the mushrooms cut in quarters.

3. 3

   Cover with a layer of macaroni, another of chicken and pour over it, wetting as evenly as possible, the stock and cream.

4. 4

   Sprinkle buttered bread crumbs over the top and bake brown.

5. 5

   If it browns too quickly, cover with a plate and pour a little more stock in if it seems to be growing too dry.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Left-overs made palatable (1902) by Isabel Gordon Curtis, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken and Macaroni Creamed Chicken and Sweetbreads Chicken a la Terrapin Chicken Pate Chicken Timbales Chicken Souffle Chicken Dumplings Chicken Cutlets Easter Croquettes Chicken Croquettes Salad of Dark Turkey Meat Swiss Chicken Salad Turkey Salad Hot Chicken Salad Potted Turkey Glace Chicken with Let- tuce Salad CHICKEN even at twenty cents a pound is not more extravagant than roast beef when one considers that every morsel of it can be used, even to the bleaching of the bones in a soup. The carcasses of two good chickens or one turkey will generally make a quart or two of excellent stock. This means, of course, that every bone, the giblets and every morsel of skin shall be saved. A careful house- wife gathers all these remains into a clean bowl and they stand in the refrigerator until ready to be used. Cover them with cold water, add the seasonings suit- able to chicken soup and set far back on the stove, Made Palatable 133 where it will take at least an hour to begin to simmer. In four hours it will be ready to strain. Never add salt to a soup till after it has cooked. Cool the stock as quickly as possible, but never by putting it steaming hot into the refrigerator. I have seen that plan followed in more than one household and then I have heard the cook exclaim in wonder over spoiled stock and other foods ruined. Still, the sooner stock will cool the longer it will keep. Do not break the cake of fat on top until ready to use; it excludes the air and helps to keep the soup sweet. There is no meat so suitable for rechauffes as chicken. It makes excellent croquettes and timbales. Creamed, it loses none of its delicate flavor. It is excellent in pates or on toast. It is good scalloped, deviled, curried, in fritters, or as a souffle, while in hot summer days it appeals to the appetite as a salad, in aspic jelly, in a mousse, or potted. The meat of tur- key, game, duck and goose may be treated in many instances as chicken. The flavor of a turkey salad is not as delicate as a chicken salad, still it is a dish not to be despised. The same rule ought to apply to the warming over of poultry as to other meats. Do not cook it a second time; all it requires is reheating. CHICKEN SOUP 2 chicken carcasses 2 quarts cold water 2 onions 1 cup stewed tomato 1 chopped carrot 18 artichokes 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour Put the remains of the chicken in a soup kettle with the cold water. When this boils, add the onions IJ4 Left-Overs chopped fine, the tomato and carrot. If artichokes are in season, add eight of them pared and chopped. Cook for tnree hours. Half an hour before serving the soup, strain it through the colander, return to the pot with a dozen small artichokes and allow them to cook for twenty minutes. If artichokes cannot be obtained, let egg balls or tiny squares of toast take their place. Bind the soup with a spoonful of butter and flour cooked together, if it is not thick enough. CHICKEN PUREE i£ cups cold chicken •J cup cold rice i chicken carcass 2 quarts cold water 1 onion Sprig parsley 2 teaspoons sweet herbs I small carrot 6 peppercorns Salt and pepper \ cup cream Put the carcass and the skin of a roast chicken into cold water with the sliced onion, chopped carrot, parsley, sweet herbs and peppercorns. Allow it to simmer gently for an hour. Pound the chicken meat to a paste, put it with the rice through a potato ricer. Strain the stock through a fine sieve and add the paste of rice and chicken. Let it heat and not come to a boil, season with salt and pepper and add just before serving the cream scalding hot. TURKEY SOUP I turkey carcass 1 onion 2 bay leaves 4 sprigs parsley Made Palatable 135 . . 1 carrot 1 parsnip 8 peppercorns 6 cloves 2 quarts cold water 1 teaspoon salt Break the turkey bones into as small pieces as possible, and add all the morsels of dressing and meat not presentable enough to be served. Chop the car- rot, parsnip and onion, add with the seasonings and the water. Allow it to simmer four hours, when the stock will be reduced to a quart. Pour through a puree strainer and set away over night to cool. Take the fat off and reheat. Add to it a pint of cream, bind with two tablespoons of flour and butter and serve with croutons. SCALLOPED TURKEY Into small ramekin dishes sprinkle dried bread crumbs browned in butter. Over this put a layer one and one-half inches deep of chopped cold turkey moistened by a spoonful of giblet gravy. Cover with browned crumbs and bake till chestnut brown. CHICKEN AND HAM MOLD 2 cups cold chopped chicken 1 cup chopped ham 1 cup cold boiled macaroni 2 eggs 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup gravy Pepper and salt Mix the chicken, ham and macaroni, moisten with the eggs, melted butter and gravy, season highly. Butter a mold, pour the mixture in, put on the cover tightly and boil two hours. Dip the mold into cold 136 Left-Overs water for a minute and turn out on a hot dish. Serve with tomato sauce. CHICKEN OMELET 2 tablespoons milk 4 eggs Salt and pepper 1 teacup chopped cold chicken Beat the eggs very lightly, add milk and seasoning. Just before pouring into the pan add the chicken to the egg mixture. Melt the butter in an omelet pan, cook and fold exactly like an omelet. CHICKEN GALLOSCH 2 potatoes (raw) I tablespoon butter £ teaspoon paprika I cup brown stock £ teaspoon salt J clove garlic 1 cup cold chicken Pare three small potatoes and cut into dice, add them to the melted butter in the spider to fry. Toss about in the butter till they begin to brown, then add the seasoning, the stock, and last the chicken. Sim- mer slowly. Serve as soon as the potatoes are soft. RAMEKINS OF CHICKENS Butter ramekins and cover the bottom of each dish with cooked rice. Into each put a layer of cold roast chicken cut in half-inch pieces and mixed with small pieces of the dressing. Moisten with a spoonful of gravy, season with pepper and salt. Cover with a thin layer of rice, then with a scattering of buttered bread crumbs. Bake till the crumbs are browned. Made Palatable 137 CHICKEN AND MACARONI 1 cup cold macaroni 2 cups cold chicken 6 mushrooms i cup cream i cup chicken stock i cup dried bread crumbs Pepper and salt 1 tablespoon butter Into a buttered baking dish put a layer of mac- aroni, then a layer of chicken cut in small strips. Sprinkle with pepper and salt and the mushrooms cut in quarters. Cover with a layer of macaroni, another of chicken and pour over it, wetting as evenly as possi- ble, the stock and cream. Sprinkle buttered bread crumbs over the top and bake brown. If it browns too quickly, cover with a plate and pour a little more stock in if it seems to be growing too dry. CREAMED CHICKEN AND SWEETBREADS 2 cups cold chicken 1 sweetbread J can mushrooms 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons flour ^ cup milk \ cup cream

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