Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings

Ingredients

• Cut a well-cleaned chicken of 3 or 4 pounds
• 1 even tablespoonful salt
• 1 even teaspoonful pepper
• 2 onions
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 ounce butter
• 1 pint of prepared flour
• 1 teaspoonful butter
• 1 gill of milk
• 2 whole eggs
• 1 yolk

Method

1. 1

   Cut the chicken into pieces and cook with salt, pepper, and onions until tender.

2. 2

   Mix flour with butter and add to the fricassee.

3. 3

   Prepare dumplings by mixing flour, butter, milk, and eggs into a stiff batter, drop into the fricassee, cover, and boil for 6 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve chicken on a warm dish with dumplings arranged around it, sprinkled with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 244. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Fricassee witli Dumplings.— Cut a well-cleaned chicken of 3 or 4 pounds into 10 pieces and place in a saucepan ; add 1 even tablespoonful salt, 1 even teaspoonful pepper, 2 onions, cover with boiling water, and cook till tender ; then mix 1 table- spoonful flour with 1 ounce butter, and add it to the fricassee. Ten minutes before serving mix 1 pint of prepared flour with 1 tea- spoonful butter, 1 gill of milk, 2 whole eggs and 1 yolk into a stiff batter ; cut with a tablespoon small portions from the batter, drop them into the fricassee, cover and boil 6 minutes ; then remove in- stantly the saucepan to side of stove, where they stop boiling. In serving arrange the chicken on a warm dish, and lay the dumplings in a circle around it. Sprinkle 1 tablespoonful fine-chopped parsley over the whole, and serve. The batter will make 12 good-sized dumplings. Chicken Fricassee^ Plain. — Cut a well-cleaned chicken of 3 or 4 pounds into 10 pieces ; place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water; add 1 even tablespoonful salt; cover and cook till tender, which will take from 1 to 3 hours, according to the age of the chicken. Shortly before serving, mix 2 tablespoonfuls flour

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