Chicken with Oysters

Ingredients

• Stuff a fat young chicken with oysters
• add two ounces of butter
• salt
• pepper
• a little mace to taste
• a cupful of cream
• two hard-boiled eggs, sliced
• a grating of nutmeg
• some thickening

Method

1. 1

   Stuff chicken with oysters, add butter, salt, pepper, and mace.

2. 2

   Truss and boil in a covered pail for an hour.

3. 3

   After cooking, pour gravy into a saucepan, add more oysters, eggs, nutmeg, cream, and thickening.

4. 4

   Bring to a boil and pour over chicken.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHICKEN WITH OYSTERS — Stuff a fat young chicken with oysters, add two ounces of butter, salt, pepper, and a little mace to taste. Truss carefully and place in a tin pail with a tight cover. Stand the pail in a bath of boiling water; boil an hour or longer. When tender, lay the fowl on a dish and pour the gravy into a saucepan. To this add more oysters, two hard- boiled eggs, sliced, a grating of nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste, a cupful of cream and some thickening

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