Pilau of Fowl

Ingredients

• fowl
• 3 cups stock or water
• 1 cup mee
• 2 tablespoons Crisco
• 1 chopped onion
• 2 extra tablespoons Crisco
• 4 cup blanched almonds
• 2 tablespoons seeded raisins
• 3 cloves
• 6 whole white peppers
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 inch cinnamon stick
• salt and paprika to taste

Method

1. 1

   Truss fowl for boiling, place in pan with stock or water and simmer for 30 minutes.

2. 2

   Wash and dry mee.

3. 3

   Melt Crisco and fry onion until golden, then remove.

4. 4

   Add more Crisco and fry rice and almonds until yellow, then add onion, raisins, salt, and paprika.

5. 5

   Tie spices in muslin and add.

6. 6

   Make a hole in rice, lay fowl in it, pour in stock, and simmer until cooked, adding more stock as needed.

7. 7

   Turn fowl during cooking and serve with rice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 131. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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