Plain Chicken Pie

Ingredients

• Take two nice chickens, or more if they are small
• a quarter of a pound of sweet butter
• four Irish potatoes sliced small
• beat up two eggs
• half a pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cut chickens and stew with fat meat.

2. 2

   After half an hour, add onions and potatoes.

3. 3

   Season and stir in eggs and milk.

4. 4

   Line a pan with crust, add chicken and gravy, cover, and bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN CHICKBN PIE. ïake two nice chickens, or more if they are small, eut them up as for f rying, and put them in a pot to stew with some slices of fat méat. Let them cook for half an hour, then add a few onions and four Irish potatoes sliced small, so that in cooking they may be thoroughly dissolved in the gravy. Season with pepper, sait, a little parsley, and a quarter of a pound of sweet butter. When it is cooked well there should be gravy enough to cover the chickens. If you want it very nice, beat up two eggs, and stir into the stew with half a pint of milk

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