To Boil a Hen

Ingredients

• Put the hen in a domestic bag
• adding salt to the water
• Have a saucer in bottom of pot

Method

1. 1

   Put the hen in a domestic bag in a pot of hot water, adding salt to the water.

2. 2

   Have a saucer in bottom of pot to keep it from scorching.

3. 3

   Add more hot water as it boils down, keep covered.

4. 4

   Cook about three hours.

5. 5

   Take out the hen and skim off the richest of the liquor.

6. 6

   Add this to one pint or less of thickened milk.

7. 7

   Carve the chicken and pour over it this gravy, to which has been added three hard boiled eggs nicely sliced.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Boil a Hen. — Never cook chicken the same day it is killed. Put the hen in a domestic bag in a pot of hot water, adding salt to the water. Have a saucer in bottom of pot to keep it from scorching. Add more hot water as it boils down, keep covered. Cook about three hours

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