Stew or Fricassee of Chicken

Ingredients

• Clean and wash the chicken
• a teaspoonful of salt
• half as much pepper
• a teacup of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a bunch of parsley
• serve on toasted bread

Method

1. 1

   Cut the chicken up as for frying, lay it in a stew-pan with water to cover it; add salt and pepper; set it to boil gently.

2. 2

   When the chicken is tender, add butter, flour, and parsley to the stew-pan; let it stew for twenty minutes, and serve on toasted bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEW^ OR FRICASSEE OF CHICKEN. Clean and wash the chicken, eut it up as for frying, lay it in a stew-pan with water to cover it; add a teaspoonf ul of sait and half as much pepper ; set it to boil very gently, take off ail scum as it rises. When the chicken is tender, which will be in an hour, take a tea- cup of butter, a tablespoonf ul of flour worked in it, and a bunch of parsley, put them in the stew-pan with the chicken ; let ail stew twenty minutes, and serve on toast- ed bread. Egg- balls around the toast add much to the beauty of this dish. 68 LA CUISINE CREOLE. CHICKEN FEIOASSBB A LA MAEBNGO. Cut the chîcken up as for a fricassée, put it in a sauce- pan with a wineglassful of salad oil, and allow it to cook rather briskly for twenty minutes ; then put in with it a quarter of a pound of truffles cut up, a bunch of parsley, six cliives or small green eschalots, a bruised clove of garlic, and pepper and sait ; let them stew for twenty minutes ; then pour ofif the oil and take ont the parsley. If only one chicken is used, throw in half a pint of button mushrooms, a ladleful of brown gravy sauce, and the juice of a lemon. Garnish this dish with pièces of f ried bread and large crayfish. ROAST CHICKENS. Draw them and stuflf with rich bread and butter stufif- ing ; baste them with butter and a little fat bacon, sea- soned with sweet herbs; brown nicely, and serve with their own gravy made by sifting in a tablespoonful of flour

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