Follow recipe for Casserole of rice with Veal, using chicken instead of veal. Season chicken highly with salt, pepper, celery-salt, onion juice and one teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Moisten mixture with Cream Sauce, using half cup chicken stock and half cup hot thin cream. Unmold on hot platter and serve with Cream Sauce.
Chicken Timbales
- 2 tablespoons butter.
- ¼ cup stale bread crumbs.
- ⅔ cup milk.
- 1 cup finely minced cooked chicken.
- ½ tablespoon finely chopped parsley.
- 2 eggs.
- Few drops onion-juice.
- Salt and pepper.
Process: Melt butter in a sauce-pan, add bread crumbs and milk, cook five minutes. Add chicken, parsley, and eggs slightly beaten, season with salt, pepper and onion juice. Turn mixture into buttered timbale molds, set molds in a pan of hot water and cover them with a buttered paper. Bake twenty minutes. Turn from molds on serving platter and serve with Celery Sauce.
Chicken a la Bechamel
- 1½ cups cold cooked chicken cut in
- one-third inch cubes.
- 1 cup Sauce Bechamel.
- ⅛ teaspoon celery salt.
- ½ teaspoon finely chopped parsley.
Process: Add parsley and celery salt to sauce; add chicken and simmer gently until chicken is thoroughly heated. Omit the yolks of eggs when making the sauce for this purpose.
Chicken Souffle
- 2 cups scalded milk.
- 2 tablespoons butter.
- 2 tablespoons flour.
- ½ teaspoon salt.
- ½ teaspoon celery salt.
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper.
- ⅓ cup fine soft bread crumbs.
- 2 cups left-over cooked fowl or
- chicken, chopped very fine.
- Yolks of four eggs well beaten.
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped parsley.
- Whites four eggs beaten stiff and dry.
Process: Melt butter in sauce-pan, add flour mixed with seasonings, stir to a smooth paste; add milk gradually, beating constantly, add bread crumbs and cook three minutes; remove from range; add chicken, yolks of eggs and parsley, cut and fold in the whites of eggs. Turn mixture into a well-buttered baking dish and bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with Cream, Bechamel or Supreme Sauce. Left-over turkey or veal may be used instead of chicken.