Chicken Stew

Ingredients

• Cut up chicken as for frying
• covered with cold water
• adding salt when partially done
• add a generous amount of butter
• salt and pepper to taste
• a little chopped onion (about one teaspoonful)
• Take biscuit dough

Method

1. 1

   Put chicken in a deep vessel covered with cold water; let boil, adding salt when partially done.

2. 2

   When sufficiently boiled, add butter, salt, and pepper to taste, and mix flour with the butter to thicken.

3. 3

   If dumplings are wanted, add them about half an hour before taking up the stew.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken Stew. — Cut up chicken as for frying, and put in a deep vessel covered with cold water; let boil, adding salt when partially done; when it is sufficiently boiled, add a generous amount of butter, salt and pepper to taste, and mix flour with the butter to thicken the right consistency; a little chopped onion (about one teaspoonful) is quite an addition. If dump- lings are wanted, add them about half hour before taking up the stew. Take biscuit dough

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