My Mother's Stewed Chicken

Ingredients

• Clean and wash a nice, fresh, stewing chicken
• put it in a soup pot with enough boiling water to cover it
• add one teaspoonful of salt
• and one teaspoonful of pepper
• add one-quarter can of mushrooms
• one cup of sweet milk
• one stalk of celery, cut into small pieces
• a bunch of parsley
• one tablespoonful of butter
• one tablespoonful of flour
• add noodles or dumplings
• add one dozen large, fat oysters

Method

1. 1

   Clean and wash the chicken, cut it up, and boil gently in water with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Remove skum, add mushrooms, milk, celery, parsley, butter, and flour.

3. 3

   Add boiled noodles or dumplings and oysters before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MY MOTHER'S STEWED CHICKEK Clean and wash a nice, fresh, stewing chicken ; cut it up as for frying and put it in a soup pot with enough boiling water to cover it; add one teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of pepper; set it to boil very gently ; take off all skum as it rises. When the chicken is tender add one-quarter can of mushrooms, one cup of sweet milk, one stalk of celery, cut into small pieces a bunch of parsley and one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour, worked together; now add noodles or dumplings, which have been boiled in salted water until tender; and, just before removing from the fire, add one dozen large, fat oysters

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