Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

• Boil 1 chicken for several hours
• yolks of two eggs
• nearly a pound of butter
• a small quantity of chopped onion
• cayenne pepper
• salt
• % nutmeg
• soaked a loaf of bread in cold water

Method

1. 1

   Pick chicken to pieces and put through a meat grinder.

2. 2

   Mix soaked bread with yolks, butter, onion, cayenne, salt, and nutmeg.

3. 3

   Cook until it leaves the side of the pan.

4. 4

   Cool and mix in the meat.

5. 5

   Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, then fry in hot fat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Croquettes. Boil 1 chicken for several hours and when cool enough to handle pick to pieces and put through a meat grinder. Chop some parsley very fine and add to the meat. Having soaked a loaf of bread in cold water for a short while, wring it out and put in a 176 KENTUCKY RECEIPT BOOK. saucepan. Add to this the yolks of two eggs, nearly a pound of butter, a small quantity of chopped onion, cayenne pepper, salt and % nutmeg

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