Chicken Pudding

Ingredients

• a cup bread-crumbs
• cup boiling milk
• pinch of soda
• a slice of boiled ham
• tablespoon butter
• two well-beaten eggs
• a pinch of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Soak bread-crumbs in boiling milk with dissolved soda, beat light, and let cool.

2. 2

   Mince cold chicken and ham finely, mix with bread-crumbs, season with pepper, salt, and butter, add beaten eggs, and mix well.

3. 3

   Turn into a buttered baking dish and bake in a brisk oven until puffed and light brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 463. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Pudding, — Soak a cup bread-crumbs in cup boiling milk in which pinch of soda has been dissolved, and beat very light ; let cool while mincing cold chicken and a slice of boiled ham very fine ; mix the meat with the bread-crumbs, season with pepper and salt and tablespoon butter, add two well-beaten eggs, beat all up well, turn into well-buttered baking dish and bake in brisk oven. When it i)uffs up a light, delicate brown send at once to table in dish in which it is baked. If flavor is liked, boil half ' an onion in the milk, skimming out before pouring over bread-crumbs. Al- ways add a pinch of sugar

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