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A historical recipe from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various.

A historical recipe

My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Project Gutenberg eBook #21826.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: raw egg. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Source and licence

From My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #21826 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21826). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Canada. Associated with Canada by the book is about Canadian cookery (Cooking, Canadian); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Cut up a chicken, (roast or boiled) fine, salt and pepper well, add a large or two small heads of celery and if lobster some beet-root and the white of a hard boiled egg.
  2. Crush the yolk with a pinch of salt, half a teaspoon of pepper, a large teaspoon of mustard, two teaspoons of brown sugar, one teaspoon of olive oil or butter melted, one wineglass of vinegar;
  3. mix well with a raw egg well beaten, half a pint of sour or sweet cream, and mix with other ingredients: garnish with either salad or parsley.
  4. This is excellent.