Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• four tablespoons butter
• one fourth cup onion
• a sprig of parsley
• bit of bay leaf
• four cloves
• one tablespoon salt
• Put in chicken
• cover with boiling water
• Arrange chicken in baking dish
• cover whole dish with mashed potato or pastry crust

Method

1. 1

   Cut a chicken in pieces for serving.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add onion, parsley, bay leaf, cloves, and salt.

3. 3

   Put in chicken and cover with boiling water; cook until tender.

4. 4

   Arrange chicken in baking dish; cover with strained and thickened stock.

5. 5

   Cover with mashed potato or pastry crust.

6. 6

   Bake until potato is brown or crust is done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four tablespoons butter, add four tablespoons flour, two and one half cups water in which chicken was cooked. Cook ten minutes ; add one cup cream or two egg yolks. 92 LOWNEY'S COOK BOOK Arrange chicken on platter, pour sauce around, and gar- nish with toast and parsley. If a brown sauce is preferred, brown the butter and brown the flour, adding one more tablespoon. Chicken Pie Cut a chicken in pieces for serving. Melt four table- spoons butter or use the same quantity of pork fat. Add one fourth cup onion, a sprig of parsley, bit of bay leaf, four cloves, and one tablespoon salt. Put in chicken and cover with boiling water ; cook until tender. Arrange chicken in baking dish ; cover with strained and thickened stock. Cover whole dish with mashed potato or pastry crust

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