Terrapin Chicken

Ingredients

• one quart of cold cooked chicken
• two chicken livers
• three hard-boiled eggs
• one level teaspoonful of salt
• one-third of a teaspoonful of pepper
• a dash of grated nutmeg
• three tablespoonfuls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• one cupful of chicken stock
• one cupful of cream
• the yolks of two eggs
• four tablespoonfuls of Sherry
• one tablespoonful of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Cut chicken into small pieces, mix with livers and chopped eggs.

2. 2

   Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

3. 3

   Melt butter, add flour, stir until smooth, then gradually add chicken stock.

4. 4

   Cook for 3-4 minutes, then stir in cream, chicken mixture, and cook slowly for 10 minutes.

5. 5

   Beat egg yolks with cream, stir into the saucepan, and mix thoroughly.

6. 6

   Serve at once.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Terrapin Ohicken Cut one quart of cold cooked chicken in very small pieces and mix with two chicken livers and three hard-boiled eggs chopped rather coarse. Sprinkle ali with one level teaspoonful of salt, one-third of a teaspoonful of pepper, and a dash of grated nutmeg. Put three tablespoonfuls of butter in a pan. After it has melted, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until the mixture is smooth. Set the pan where there is less beat and gradually add one cupful of chicken stock. Place it over a quick fire and stir constantly f or three or f our minutes. Then from one cupful of cream remove four tablespoonfuls, stir the rest into the mixture. Then add the chicken, etc, and cook ali together slowly for ten minutes. Beat the yolks pf two eggs, add the four tablespoonfuls of cream, and stir into the saucepan. Stir for a minute. At the end of that time remove the pan from the fire, stir in four tablespoonfuls of Sherry and one table- spoonful of lemon juic

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