Chicken Custard

Ingredients

• a small chicken
• a pint and a half of cold water
• a little salt
• the yolks of six eggs
• four whole eggs

Method

1. 1

   Break chicken bones and stew in water with salt for two hours.

2. 2

   Strain and add egg yolks.

3. 3

   Heat until almost boiling, pour into moulds and let cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

the yolks of two eggs, sweeten to taste, and flavour with vanilla or lemon. Pour the custard whilst hot over the bread-crumbs. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with some sugar and a little cream, stir lightly together, pour into a buttered pie-dish and bake for about twenty minutes. Chicken Panada Take the breast and wings of a boiled chicken, mix with an equal quantity of stale bread ; the water in which the chicken has been boiled should be added gradually. Boil for a few minutes, rub through the sieve, add salt and pepper and any flavouring liked. Chicken Saute (Mary Hooper) Cut the skin of a chicken just over the pinion bone and down to the leg ; turn it back, leave it on the chicken, and cut off the wing and a slice of the breast. Put half an ounce of butter into a frying-pan with a slice of fat bacon, which fry till cooked, then put in the wing of the chicken, lightly peppered and salted. Cook slowly, turning every minute till the chicken is done, which will take about ten minutes, P 2IO COOKERY A LA MODE and if properly cooked will not be hard on the out- side. The rest of the fowl may be roasted or boiled as required. Cream and Cura^oa A table-spoonful each of cream and curagoa stirred together is an excellent restorative for sick persons suffering from exhaustion. Stewed Calf's Feet Stew a well- cleaned calf's foot in one pint of milk and one of water, with pepper and salt, and the grated peel of a lemon, for three or four hours. Currageen, or Irish Moss One pint of it boiled in a pint and a half of water will make a semi-transparent tasteless jelly ; it should be then sweetened and acidulated. This forms a most strengthening diet ; it can also be mixed with milk. Chicken Custard Beat a small chicken so as to break the bones, stew it in a pint and a half of cold water with a little salt for two hours. Strain, and add the yolks of six INVALID COOKERY 2 I I eggs or four whole eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.