Fowl a La Marengo

Ingredients

• 1 large fowl
• 4 tablespoonfuls of salad oil
• 1 tablespoonful of flour
• 1 pint of regular stock, or water
• about 20 mushroom-buttons
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoonful of powdered sugar
• a very small piece of garlic

Method

1. 1

   Cut the fowl into 8 or 10 pieces; put them with the oil into the stewpan, and brown them over a moderate fire; dredge in the above proportion of flour; when that is browned, pour in the stock or water; let it simmer very slowly for rather more than half an hour, and skim off the fat as it rises to the top; add the mushrooms; season with salt, pepper, garlic and sugar; take out the fowl, which arrange pyramidically on the dish, with the inferior joints at the bottom.

2. 2

   Reduce the sauce by boiling it quickly over the fire, keeping it stirred until sufficiently thick to adhere to the back of a spoon; pour over the fowl, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i tablespoonful of flour, 2 pints of thin gravy, a small bunch of green onions, 3 sprigs of parsley, 3 cloves, i pint of young green peas, cayenne and salt to taste, i teaspoonful 58 Poultry and Game of pounded sugar. Put the butter into a stewpan ; cut up the duck into joints, lay them in with the slices of lean ham or bacon ; make it brown, then dredge in a tablespoonf ul of flour, and stir this well in before adding the gravy. Put in the onion, parsley, cloves and gravy, and when it has sim- mered for a quarter of an hour, add a pint of young green peas, and stew gently for about half an hour. Season with cayenne, salt and sugar; take out the duck, place it round the dish, and the peas in the middle. Fowl a La Marengo. You need i large fowl, 4 table- spoonfuls of salad oil, i tablespoonful of flour, I pint of regular stock, or water, about 20 mushroom-buttons, salt and pepper to taste, I teaspoonful of powdered sugar, a very small piece of garlic

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