Terrapin Chicken

Ingredients

• a quart of the chopped meat
• Three hard-boiled eggs
• one tablespoonful of flour
• one-half cup cream
• one-half cup butter
• one gill (eight tablespoonfuls) sherry
• one-quarter teaspoonful ground mace
• one-eighth teaspoonful ground cloves
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and flour together.

2. 2

   Add this to chicken, cream and seasoning, putting all into a saucepan.

3. 3

   Chop the whites of eggs fine, mash the yolks to a paste with a few spoonfuls of the cream, and add all to the chicken.

4. 4

   Stir all together until it comes to the boiling point.

5. 5

   Do not add wine until just before serving.

6. 6

   This can be prepared the day before it is wanted.

7. 7

   Heat through, and add wine just before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Some simple Sunday suppers (1895) by Suzan Sweeney Snapp, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Terrapin Chicken Hot Buttered Toast Vegetable Salad Apple Sauce White Cake Oolong Lemonade QtXtbpiYI (DfJicflCH. Boil a chicken until tender. When (Mrs. Rorer.) cold, cut in small pieces, remov- ing all bones. To a quart of the chopped meat allow: Three hard-boiled eggs; one tablespoonful of flour; one- half cup cream; one -half cup butter; one gill (eight tablespoonfuls) sherry ; one-quarter teaspoonful ground mace; one-eighth teaspoonful ground cloves. Salt and pepper to taste

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