Chicken Pot-Pie

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup milk
• Salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Clean, singe and cut up the chicken, place it in a pot and nearly cover with water.

2. 2

   Cover the pot and simmer gently.

3. 3

   An old fowl will require at least three or four hours' slow cooking, but a year-old chicken should be done in one and one-half hours.

4. 4

   Remove the cover during the last half-hour of cooking, to reduce the gravy to about one and one-half pints when done.

5. 5

   Three-fourths of an hour before time to serve, make dumplings, add to the chicken and cover.

6. 6

   When the dumplings are done and ready to serve, add salt and pepper to the chicken and make the gravy by adding to the liquor in the kettle three tablespoons of flour stirred to a paste in one cup of milk.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from New Delineator recipes. (1929) by Delineator Home Institute, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN POT-PIE I chicken i teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons flour i cup milk Salt and pepper Clean, singe and cut up the chicken, place it in a pot and nearly cover with water. Cover the pot and simmer gently. An old fowl will require at least three or four hours' slow cooking, but a year-old chicken should be done in one and one-half hours. Remove the cover during the last half-hour of cooking, to reduce the gravy to about one and one-half pints when done. Three-fourths of an hour before time to sen.-e, make dump- lings, add to the chicken and cover. Wlien the dumplings are done and ready to ser\'e, add salt and pepper to the chicken and make the gra\y by adding to the liquor m the kettle three table- NEW DELINEATOR RECIPES 59 spoons of flour stirred to a paste in one cup of milk. Skim out the chicken, lay it on a platter, place the dumplings on the top and pour over them the gravy. FRICASSEED CHICKEN 1 chicken i egg-yolk 2 tablespoons butter or other Salt and pepper fat Herbs 2 cups chicken stock Salt pork 2 tablespoons flour Rice or dumplings I cup milk

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