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Chicken

A historical recipe from Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916).

A historical recipe

Allied Cookery: British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #44947.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Also printed in: Allied cookery, British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian (1916).

Source and licence

From Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44947 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44947). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Put a good slice of salt pork into a saucepan.
  2. When it has fried a little add some chopped parsley root, carrot, onion, and a small clove of garlic.
  3. Joint the fowl and place it in the pan, add salt and pepper.
  4. Cook in the oven about one hour, then add 3 or 4 peeled tomatoes with the seeds removed.
  5. Continue to add in the pan enough water to baste the fowl frequently.
  6. Cook until the fowl is tender and serve with rice to which minced cooked ham or bacon has been added.
  7. Pour the gravy in the pan over the chicken.