Minced Chicken with Potato Wall

Ingredients

• Three-quarter pound of cold chicken
• two ounces of butter
• one half ounce of flour
• one table-spoonful of Worcestershire sauce
• one half gill of second stock
• six drops of caramel
• one pound of potatoes
• one table-spoonful of cream
• one egg
• one half tea-spoonful of salt
• one half salt-spoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop chicken finely, melt butter in a saucepan, add chicken and brown.

2. 2

   Stir in flour and stock until boiling, season with pepper, salt, Worcestershire sauce, and caramel.

3. 3

   Cover and keep warm.

4. 4

   Prepare potatoes, mash, and mix with cream and egg.

5. 5

   Layer chicken mixture and potatoes in a dish, bake until heated through.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MINCED CHICKEN WITH POTATO WALL. 73 cold turkey, two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, one half tea-spoonful of white pepper, one half tea-spoonful of salt, one half pint of milk, one gill of cream, one salt- spoonful of grated nutmeg. The turkey must first be boned, the skin having been removed, and the fragments then cut into small even pieces. Melt in a copper or porcelain-lined sauce-pan the butter, mix well with it the flour, and add by degrees the milk, stirring all until it boils. When boiling put in the cream, pepper, salt, and nutmeg, also the pieces of turkey, taking great care not to break up the meat in the process, and let all simmer together very slowly until the turkey is heated through. Serve very hot on a small platter, with sippits of toast or fried bread. NOTES.— Cold veal or chicken may also be used in this way. A copper or porcelain-lined sauce-pan should always be used in the preparation of white meats, as anything but a very bright vessel is sure to cause them to discolour. Minced Chicken with Potato Wall. — Three-quarter pound of cold chicken, two ounces of butter, one half ounce of flour, one table-spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, one half gill of second stock, six drops of caramel, one pound of potatoes, one table-spoonful of cream, one egg, one half tea- spoonful of salt, one half salt-spoonful of pepper

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