CREAMED CHICKEN

Ingredients

• One fat hen
• one pair sweetbreads
• one-half can of mushrooms
• one pint of milk or cream
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• four tablespoonfuls of flour
• one-half grated onion

Method

1. 1

   Boil the chicken and sweetbreads, and when cold chop fine.

2. 2

   Into a saucepan put milk or cream, and rub together butter and flour, and when the milk reaches boiling point stir in the butter and flour, and stir until smooth and thick.

3. 3

   Flavor with onion, and season with salt and pepper to taste, and put in a baking dish chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms, well mixed.

4. 4

   Cover with bread crumbs, dot with bits of breakfast bacon and bake fifteen minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAMED CHICKEN. One fat hen, one pair sweetbreads and one-half can of mushrooms. Boil the chicken and sweetbreads, and when cold chop fine. Into a saucepan put one pint of milk or cream, and rub together two tablespoonfuls of butter and four tablespoonfuls of flour, and when the milk reaches boiling point stir in the butter and flour, and stir until smooth and thick. Flavor with one-half grated onion

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