Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• Cut chicken into pieces
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 quart flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• a little milk
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil chicken until tender, thicken the liquid with flour and butter, season to taste.

2. 2

   Line a baking dish with biscuit crust, fill with chicken and gravy, cover with upper crust, and bake until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

14 cup butter, il4 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, whites of 4 eggs, 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder, J4 tea- spoonful vanilla. Beat the butter to a cream, add sugar, then milk, whites of eggs, which have been beated to a stiff froth, and lastly the flour and baking powder. Bake in jelly tins. Fining— W\x 2 cups suf^ar with \^ sweet milk, put over fire and stir till it boils, then boil for 5 minuLCS "ery slowly, without stirring and flavor with vanilla. Beat with a Dover Egg Beater till a cream. Spread be- tween the layers of cake and on top. FRIDAY, MAY Scrambled Eggs. Breakfast. —Wheat Germ with Cream. Warmed Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner.- Fish Chowder. Fried Parsnips. Cold Slaw. Bread and Butter. Baked Custard (using yolksof eggs which were left from cake.) Supper.— Milk Toast. Crackers and Cheese. Stewed Fruit. Cake. Tea. Frted Parsnips.— Boil in boiling salted water till very tender, mash and season with butter, pepper and salt ; add one well beaten egg, and a very little flour. Make into small '.-alls and fry as you would doughnuts in hot lard. SATURDAY, MAY Breakfast. — Oalmeal with Cream. Soft Boiled Eggs. ^^9 Hot Buttered Toast. Doughnuts and Coffee. ^^^ Dinner. — Soup with Crackers. Meat Pie. Carrots with Cream Sauce. Bread and Butter. Rice Pudding. Supper. —Scalloped Potatoes. Hot Rolls. Stewed Prunelles. Cake. Tea. Carrots with Cream Sauce. — Scrape, wash and cut into cubes enough carrots to make a quart when cut up. Cook in boiling water for an hour, then pour off all the water except \4 cup. Add I teaspoonful sugar, r of salt, and boil until the water evaporates. Add the sauce and serve at once. Make the sauce same as for creamed potatoes. SUNDAY, MAY Salt Fish Balls. Breakfast.— Quaker Oats with Cream. Fried Potatoes. Hot Rolls. Coffee. ^ Dinner.— Chicken Pie Mashed White Potatoes. Celery. Spin- ach. Bread and Butter. Olives. Charlotte Russe. Supper.— Sardines with Lemon. Thin Bread and Butter. Choco- late Cake. Canned Cherries. Tea. Chicken Pie. — Cut chicken into pieces and boil until tender in ju-t enough boiling water to cover. Take out chicken, thicken the liquid with i tablespoonful hour and butter rubbed together until creamy Season to taste. Line a deep baking dish with biscuit crust made thus i quart flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, and half a cup butter, and a little salt. Wet with milk and roll out H inch thick. After lining the dish, put in chicken and gravy and cover with upper crust. Bake until crust is brown. MONDAY, MAY 8 Breakfast.— Oatmeal with Cream. Warmed over Chow- der. Bread and Butter. Doughnuts. Coffee. Dinner.- Broiled Beef Steak. Baked Poutoes. Lettuce. Bread and Butter. Lemon Pie. Cheese. Supper.- Boston Brown Bread. Baked Beans. Fruit Cake. Cocoa. ■ Oatmkal. — I cup oatmeal, i teaspoonful salt, i quart boiling water. Cook in a double boiler and cook i hour. Remove the cover, stir with a fork, take from fire and leave lid off for a few minutes, to dry off the oatmeal. TUESDAY, MAY Breakfast.— California Breakfast Food with Cream. Liver and Bacon. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner.— Broiled Mutton Chops. F^rench Fried Potatoes. ach. Bread and Butter. Boiled Tapioca Pudding. Supper. — Dried Beef. Sally Lunn. Fruit. Cake. Chocolate 9 Spin- Sallv Lunn.— I pint flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, ^ teaspoonful salt. Beat 2 eggfs, whites and yolks separately. Add to the yolks H cup sweet milk. Stir slowly into the flour and add J^ cup melted butter. Stih in the whites last. Bake till a nice brown. Serve hot. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 Breakfast.— Hominy with Cream. Salt Fish Balls. Warmed Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee, Dinner. "Corned Beef. Cabbage. Potatoes. Bread and Butter Custard Souffle. Supper.— Cold Sliced Corned Beef. Bread and Butter. Canned Fruit. Cake. Tea. Custard Souffle.— Rub 2 scant tablespoonfuls butter to a cream. Add 2 scant tablespoonfuls flour

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