Chicken Dressed As Terrapin

Original Recipe

Select young chickens, clean and cut them into pieces; put them into a stewpan with just enough water to cook them. When tender stir into it half of a cup of butter and one beaten egg. Season it with salt and pepper, a teaspoonful of powdered thyme; add two hard-boiled eggs coarsely minced and a small glass of wine. Boil up once and serve with jelly.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup of butter and one beaten egg
  • 1 teaspoonful of powdered thyme
  • 1 small glass of wine

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Select young chickens, clean and cut them into pieces; put them into a stewpan with just _enough_ water to cook them.

  2. 2

    When tender stir into it half of a cup of butter and one beaten egg.

  3. 3

    Season it with salt and pepper, a teaspoonful of powdered thyme; add two hard-boiled eggs coarsely minced and a small glass of wine.

  4. 4

    Boil up once and serve with jelly.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)