American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Chicken and Macaroni

Original Recipe

Boil a chicken until very tender, take out all the bones, and pick up the meat quite fine. Boil half a pound of macaroni until tender, first breaking it up to pieces an inch long. Butter a deep pudding dish, put on the bottom a layer of the cooked macaroni, then a layer of the minced chicken, bits of butter, pepper and salt, then some of the chicken liquor, over this put another layer of macaroni, and so on, until, the dish is filled. Pour a cup of cream over the whole, and bake half an hour. Serve on a platter.

Ingredients

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  • 1 chicken until very tender
  • 1 pound of macaroni until tender
  • 1 deep pudding dish
  • 1 layer of the cooked macaroni
  • 1 layer of the minced chicken
  • 1 cup of cream over the whole
  • 1 platter

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Boil a chicken until very tender, take out all the bones, and pick up the meat quite fine.

  2. 2

    Boil half a pound of macaroni until tender, first breaking it up to pieces an inch long.

  3. 3

    Butter a deep pudding dish, put on the bottom a layer of the cooked macaroni, then a layer of the minced chicken, bits of butter, pepper and salt, then some of the chicken liquor, over this put another layer of macaroni, and so on, until, the dish is filled.

  4. 4

    Pour a cup of cream over the whole, and bake half an hour.

  5. 5

    Serve on a platter.

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