Chicken in Baskets

Ingredients

• two cups cold boiled chicken
• two tablespoons butter
• one large tablespoon flour
• half pint milk
• one dozen mushrooms
• salt
• white pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut stale bread into rounds, dip in beaten eggs, and fry until brown.

2. 2

   Prepare creamed chicken with butter, flour, milk, and seasonings, then fill the bread baskets with the mixture and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 144. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two cups cold boiled chicken chopped fine, two tablespoons butter, one large tablespoon flour, half pint milk, one dozen mushrooms chopped, salt and white pepper to taste. Rub butter and flour together, put them in small saucepan over fire, stir constantly; as soon as they begin to bubble, stir Into them slowly the milk previously heated. To this sauce add the chicken, mushrooms, and seasoning. Take from fire and turn out on platter. When cold shape the mixture into small croquettes with the hands, roll them in fine cracker crumbs, then in the beaten yolk of egg, then in crumbs again, fry in deep lard a crisp brown. If followed carefully the centers will be soft and creamy, the outside firm and brown; will keep several days in cool place; put in warm oven a few minutes before serving. NO. 74. CHICKEN IN BASKETS. (Orig- inal.) Emilia Lundberg, 2400 South Flower street, Los Angeles — Cut slices of stale bread one inch thick, cut into rounds with biscuit cutter. With a smaller cutter mark a circle within and remove the bread to the depth of half an inch, dip into beaten eggs, sift pow- dered cracker over them and boil in deep olive oil, delicately brown; lay them on brown paper to absorb the grease, then arrange upon a hot platter, and fill them with creamed chicken, made of two tablespoons butter, three tablespoons flour, one cup milk, one-half tea- spoon salt

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