Chicken Croquettes No. 1

Ingredients

• Put a cup of cream or milk in a saucepan
• a lump of butter as large as an egg
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• half a teaspoonful of pepper
• a bit of minced onion or parsley
• one cup of fine bread crumbs
• a pint of finely-chopped cooked chicken
• two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Boil cream, add butter mixed with flour, let it thicken, then cool.

2. 2

   Mix in salt, pepper, onion, bread crumbs, and chicken.

3. 3

   Form into cakes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HICKEN CROaUETTES. No. 1. Put a cup of cream or milk in a saucepan, set it over the fire, and when it boils add a lump of butter as large as an egg, in which has been mixed POULTRY AND GAME. 87 a tablespoonful of flour. Let it boil up thick ; remove from the fire, and when cool mix into it a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, a bit of minced onion or parsley, one cup of fine bread Crumbs, and a pint of finely-chopped cooked chicken, either roasted or boiled. Lastly, beat up two eggs

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