Chicken Stewed with Biscuit

Original Recipe

Take chickens, and make a fricassee; just before you are ready to dish it up, have ready two baking-tins of rich soda or baking-powder biscuits; take them from the oven hot, split them apart by breaking them with your hands, lay them on a large meat platter, covering it, then pour the hot chicken stew over all. Send to the table hot. This is a much better way than boiling this kind of biscuit in the stew, as you are more sure of its being always light.

Ingredients

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  • 1 fricassee
  • 1 large meat platter
  • 1 much better way than boiling this kind of biscuit in the stew

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Take chickens, and make a fricassee; just before you are ready to dish it up, have ready two baking-tins of rich soda or baking-powder biscuits; take them from the oven hot, split them apart by breaking them with your hands, lay them on a large meat platter, covering it, then pour the hot chicken stew over all.

  2. 2

    Send to the table hot.

  3. 3

    This is a much better way than boiling this kind of biscuit in the stew, as you are more sure of its being always light.

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