Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• Four Pound Fowl
• Pint Diced Potatoes
• Slice Onion
• Bay Leaves
• Cloves
• Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift
• Tablespoonfuls Flour
• Teaspoonful Salt
• Saltspoonful Pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put the fowl into a kettle of boiling water; add the onion, bay leaves and cloves.

2. 2

   Simmer gently until it is tender.

3. 3

   When done, remove the meat from the bones, rejecting the skin.

4. 4

   Cut the meat into squares of one inch; put a layer in the bottom of a baking dish, then a layer of the diced potatoes and a dusting of salt and pepper, and so continue until the dish is full.

5. 5

   Rub the Snowdrift and flour together; add one pint of the water in which the chicken was boiled; stir until boiling.

6. 6

   Pour this over the chicken, dust with chopped parsley, cover with Snowdrift puff paste and bake in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour.

7. 7

   Blanched oysters or chopped mushrooms will greatly improve the flavor of chicken pie.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Snowdrift secrets (1913) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN PIE 1 Four Pound Fowl 1 Pint Diced Potatoes 1 Slice Onion 2 Bay Leaves 12 Cloves 2 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift 3 Tablespoonfuls Flour 1 Teaspoonful Salt 1 Saltspoonful Pepper

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