Add to medium white sauce cut-up cooked chicken, turkey, veal, pork, ham, tuna, salmon, shrimp, crabmeat, or lobster.
Meat or Sea Food à la King
To creamed meat or sea food, add sautéed mushrooms, sliced hard-cooked eggs, chopped pimientos, etc.
Curried Meat or Sea Food
Add a little curry powder when making white sauce for creamed meat or sea food. Delicious with chicken, lamb, veal, shrimp. With it, offer several relishes, such as chopped salted peanuts, ground fresh coconut, chutney, sweet pickled onions, hard-cooked egg put through a sieve, chopped pickle, and chopped crisp bacon.
Oven-Crisp Chicken and Biscuits
1 cup Bisquick 2 tsp. salt ¼ tsp. pepper 2 tsp. paprika ½ cup shortening (half butter) 1 cut-up frying chicken
Heat oven to 425° (hot). Mix first four ingredients in paper bag. Place shortening in oblong pan, 13×9½×2″ and set in oven to melt. Shake chicken in bag to coat thoroughly. Place chicken, skin-side-down, in single layer in hot shortening. Bake 45 min.; then turn. Meanwhile, make Rolled Biscuit dough (recipe [page 3]). Roll dough ¼″ thick and cut into biscuits. Push chicken to one side in pan; place biscuits in single layer on other side. Bake another 15 min., or until biscuits are lightly browned and chicken tender. Place chicken and biscuits on serving platter. For gravy, add 2 tbsp. Bisquick (saved from dredgings) to drippings in pan. Bring to boil. Add 1½ cups hot water. Boil 1 min. 4 servings.
Asparagus Shortcake with Cheese Sauce
Heat oven to 450° (hot). Make Biscuit dough (recipe [page 3]). Roll out ¼″ thick. Cut into 4 or 5″ rounds. Bake about 10 min. Split. Serve sandwich-fashion with about 5 spears of freshly cooked asparagus between biscuit halves. Make Cheese Sauce by heating 1½ cups medium white sauce, 2 cups grated sharp cheese (½ lb.), ¼ tsp. dry mustard, and few grains thyme over hot water until cheese melts. Pour over top. Garnish with sprig of parsley. 4 to 5 servings.