Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• a fat hen
• two cups of sour cream
• one-half a teaspoonful of soda
• one cup of butter
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• a handful of flour
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Dress and cut chicken into pieces.

2. 2

   Stew until tender, adding salt.

3. 3

   Make a crust with sour cream, soda, salt, butter, and baking powder.

4. 4

   Add enough flour to make a stiff dough.

5. 5

   Put chicken into a deep pan with broth, sprinkle flour, add pepper and more salt if necessary.

6. 6

   Cover with dough and bake in a moderately hot oven for thirty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN PIE. Take a fat hen, dress and cut into pieces. Stew until tender, adding salt. Make a crust of two cups of sour cream, one-half a teaspoonful of soda, a pinch of salt, one cup of butter and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Add enough flour to make a stiff dough. Put chicken into a deep pan with plenty of broth. Sprinkle in a handful of flour and add pepper

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