Pressed Chicken

Ingredients

• one or two chickens
• the liquor it was boiled in

Method

1. 1

   Boil the chickens in a small quantity of water with a little salt.

2. 2

   When thoroughly done, take all the meat from the bones, keeping the light and dark meat separate; chop fine and season.

3. 3

   Put in a pan a layer of dark and light meat; add the liquor it was boiled in.

4. 4

   Press with a small weight.

5. 5

   When cold, cut in slices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PRESSED CHICKEN. Boil one or two chickens in a small quantity of water, with a little salt; when thoroughly done, take all the meat from the bones, keeping the light and dark meat separate; chop fine and season. Put in a pan a layer of dark and light meat; add the liquor it was boiled in

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