Chicken Croquets

Ingredients

• one large chicken, roasted
• one pair small sweetbreads
• a little of the soft bread dressing
• one pint of cream
• one-half cup of butter
• salt
• red pepper — chili Colorado, not cayenne
• roll in beaten egg

Method

1. 1

   Chop chicken, sweetbreads, and dressing fine.

2. 2

   Make a drawn butter with cream and onion, add butter and flour to thicken.

3. 3

   Season chicken mixture and mix with drawn butter.

4. 4

   Form croquets, roll in cracker dust, fry until golden.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN CROQUETS. BY MBS. A. W. GREELY. (Wife of the Chief of the Signal Service.) aNE large chicken, roasted, one pair small sweetbreads, and a little of the soft bread dressing with which the chicken has been stuffed, chopped fine together. Make a drawn butter of one pint of cream, in which an oniou has stood until the cream is ready to boil ; one-hair' cup of but- ter and sufficient flour to make a thick sauce. Season the chicken mixture highly with chopped parsley, the juice of half a lemon, salt and red pepper — chili Colorado, not cayenne. Mix with the drawn butter and heat thoroughly, stirring constantly. When cool form the croquets with cracker dust, roll in beaten egg, then in cracker dust, and fry. f AND HOW TO COOK THEM. 77 PRESSED CHICKEN. BY MRS. THOS. J. HKNDKKSON. (Wife of Representative from Illinois.) $**£fj^OIL the chicken until very tender; remove ^fjfSsf! the meat from the bones and pick it in small pieces with a fork ; put a layer of hard-boiled eggs and a layer of chicken into a mold; boil the broth to a jelly and pour it over the chicken ; season with salt and pepper. Set it on the ice to cool. To be cut in slices ; garnish with parsley. 78 STATESMEN'S DISHES; VEAL LOAF. BY MKS. J. G. SAWYER. (Wife of Representative from New York.) pNE and a half pints cold veal well minced, one pint powdered crackers, one teacup milk, one-half teacup butter

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