Fricasseed Fowls or Chickens

Ingredients

• a couple of plump chickens
• a pint and a half of water
• a small half-teaspoonful of salt
• a couple of blades of mace
• a third of a pint of rich boiling cream
• the beaten yolks of three fresh eggs

Method

1. 1

   Prepare chickens, strip off skin, and carve neatly.

2. 2

   Stew inferior joints with mace, herbs, peppercorns, water, and salt.

3. 3

   Strain and skim fat.

4. 4

   Arrange joints in one layer, cover with gravy, add lemon rind, and simmer for 30 to 45 minutes.

5. 5

   Season and thicken with arrow-root, then add cream and egg yolks, shaking gently until just set.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 256. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRICASSEED FOWLS OR CHICKENS. (ENTREE.) To make a fricassee of good appearance without great expense, prepare, with exceeding nicety, a couple of plump chickens, strip off the skin, and carve them very neatly. Reserve the wings, breasts, merrythoughts, and thighs ; and stew down the inferior joints with a couple of blades of mace, a small bunch of savoury herbs, a few white peppercorns, a pint and a half of water, and a small half- teaspoonful of salt. When something more than a third part reduced, strain the gravy, let it cool, and skim olf every particle of fat. Arrange the joints which are to be fricasseed in one layer if it can be done conveniently, and pour to them as much of the gravy as will nearly cover them ; add the very thin rind of half a fine fresh lemon, and simmer the fowls gently from half' to three quarters of an hour ; throw in sufficient salt, pounded mace, and cayenne, to give the sauce a good flavour, thicken it with a large teaspoonful of arrow-root, and stir to it the third of a pint of rich boiling cream ; then lift the stewpan from the fire, and shake it briskly round while the beaten yolks of three fresh eggs

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