Stewed Chicken

Ingredients

• Dress, clean, and cut up a chicken
• a few slices of salt pork
• add 1 ts. salt
• wet 4 tb. flour
• 1 c. cream or milk
• 2 tb. butter

Method

1. 1

   Put the chicken into a kettle with salt pork and barely cover with boiling water.

2. 2

   Boil for 5 minutes, then simmer until tender.

3. 3

   When about half done, add salt.

4. 4

   Cook a young chicken about 1.5 hours, an old one 2 to 2.5 hours.

5. 5

   When done, stir in the flour mixed with cold water, season, add cream or milk and butter, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A textbook of domestic science for high schools (1913) by Matilda G. Campbell, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Chicken Dress, clean, and cut up a chicken. Put into a kettle with a few slices of salt pork and barely cover with boiling water. Boil 5 m., then simmer until tender. When about half done add 1 ts. salt. Cook a young chicken about 1^ h., an old one 2 to 2^ h. When done wet 4 tb. flour in cold water to form a smooth paste and stir into the boiling mixture. Season. Add 1 c. cream or milk and 2 tb. butter

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