Chicken Broth for the Consumptive

Ingredients

• Put a young fowl, cut up as usual
• two spoonfuls of rice
• two quarts of water
• some coriander seed
• two pinches of poppy grains
• six or eight crayfish
• a handful of borage leaves
• two spoonfuls of pearl barley
• two ounces of barley-sugar

Method

1. 1

   Put the chicken into a stew-pan with rice and water.

2. 2

   Skim it, add coriander and poppy grains, and boil gently for two hours.

3. 3

   Add crayfish and boil for twenty minutes.

4. 4

   Add borage leaves, cover, and infuse for a quarter of an hour.

5. 5

   Add pearl barley when putting in the fowl, and after straining, add barley-sugar dissolved in lukewarm broth.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Broth for the Consumptive. Put a young fowl, cut up as usual, into a small, ■well- tinned stew-pan, with two spoonfuls of rice, and two quarts of water ; liaving skimmed it, add some coriander seed and two pinches of poppy grains ; boil it gently for two hours ; add six or eight crayfish, and give it twent}' minutes' boiling ; then throw in a handful of borage leaves ; cover it, and take the pan from the fire to infuse for a quarter of an hour. In putting the fowl on, add tAvo spoonfuls of pearl barley, and when passed through a sieve, add two ounces of barley- suga

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