Chicken Croquettes.
- Ingredients—2 oz. of cooked chicken.
- 1 oz. of cooked ham.
- 1 oz. of butter.
- ¾ oz. of flour.
- 1 gill of stock.
- ½ gill of cream.
- 6 button mushrooms.
- A few drops of lemon juice.
- Seasoning.
- Pastry.
Method.—Mince the chicken, ham, and mushrooms.
Melt the butter in a small stewpan.
Mix in the flour.
Pour in the stock, and cook well.
Then add cream, lemon juice, and seasoning; lastly, the chicken, ham, and mushrooms.
Spread on a plate to cool.
Roll out some paste as thin as possible.
Cut into rounds.
Put a little of the mixture on each, and egg round the edges.
Fold them over, egg and bread-crumb the croquettes, and fry in a frying-basket in hot fat (see [French Frying]).
Garnish with fried parsley.