Five ways of cooking a Spring Chicken
by
HESTER
VALENTINE
for breakfast), brush lightly with melted butler, and grill.
Serve with a sharp sauce such as and tartare (add chopped capers gherkins to a thick mayonnaise) or robert (brown a chopped onion in butter stir in dessertspoonful flour, add half pint strong stock and
port- glassful red wine. Simmer for half- with pinch salt, hour and season
FIRST of all you must prepare a bird for cooking. A little dry mustard, and cayenne or
cockerel should fast (but be allowed plenty of water) paprika pepper).
for twenty-four hours before it is killed and may hang two to four days (according to weather) before it is
enten..
to it.
hour.
Viennese SUITA QUITABLE for poussins up
to four months old.
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(should go well in almost any company.) Cut Divide a chicken into joints. Cut half a pound of When you have plucked the bird, cut off the head, neck, and your poussin into quarters (first into streaky bacon into dice. Rub a stewpan with a cut clove feet (neck and feet to be kept for stock pot) and singe it well halves, then separate the legs with of garlic, and put the chicken and bacon into it. Shake the wings), sprinkle each piece with over à flame. This will remove any fluff or quills still adhering salt and stand aside for half an over them a tablespoonful of flour. Fry them, turning
occasionally, until they take on a good brown colour. Dust lightly with scasoned Bour, Next remove the inside, carefully reserving the gizzard, dip into beaten egg-yolk, roll in fine liver, and kidneys. When the bird is to be cooked whole it must while breadcrumbs, and try in deep
fat until a good golden colour. be trussed into shape with wooden skewers and string.
Serve with slices of lemon and If possible get an experienced friend, or friend's cook, to
green salad. Mayonnaise or demonstrate to you whole business of preparing the bird. It is tare sauce are also excellent with quite simple, but much easier to learn from a practical demons- fried chicken. tration than from a written description.
Ferrolke I do not think young if liked, though personally 1 think a cooked in the poussin. nt any rate, is better on its shukkuna Bould be
Chies the greatest care and own. wable de taken they are apt to
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better either to git and grill them er to cook them
Stuffed
With Tarragon
iar-
Then remove any superfluous fat and add three medium-sized onions cut into rings, and half a pound of skinned and sliced tomatoes. Pour in two glasses of sherry and season with pepper and salt. Cook gently for three-quarters of an hour.
THIS COURSE: CHICKEN may not run,
on the kidneys before cooking them."
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Arrange the pieces of chicken together in proportions to suit any A swifter method is to buy a small MELT good lump of butter on a hot dish, shake the con- taste.
in from pot, add 1⁄2 pint tents of the pan together, and pot of devil paste. This is quite inexpensive, and any good grocer stock, when boiling add five or six pour them over the bird.
will order it for you if he does not sprigs of tetragon and the chicken stuffing with (3-1lbs.). Simmer, closely covered, LATE WIRE FROM stock it. Spread a little of the paste PREPARE a
the poussins' livers, clean- until tender, turning the bird every whole in a closely covered pot. ed and finely chopped, three or four ten minutes. Strain the stock and
CHEESE.-Was [ACARONI Here are seme of my favourite fightly cooked and finely chopped simmer it for a further ten minutes mushrooms. onc or two chopped with a tablespoonful of chopped tar-
named after a horse called shallots, chopped herbs (parsley, ragon leaves.
or it may not run to Macaron!, which won the Derby in Allow to cool a little and thicken tarragon, thyme, chervil, marjoram),
The usual form of this dish is well four ounces salt, pepper, and a thick slice of carefully with yolks of two eggs chicken. In this case jointed 1863. Or was it? MELT two to
known. The
.cooked macaroni is (according to number of crustless white bread soaked in milk and a little cream. Season and re-rabbit will make an excellent
heat, but do not let it boll. Joint substitute. This tip holds good (but only just) in bolling, salted and well mashed. "petits poussins" or size of chicken)
the cooked chicken and pour tarra- for many similar dishes.
water. Alternate layers of macaroni dripping or butter in an iron sauce.
Mix all the above ingredients well gon
and grated cheese are put in a casserole. Add pan or ♫
sliced See together, and add to some melted
bones of all Bendent that the
buttered fireproof dish with a season- onion and fry until golden brown butter in a saucepan. Stir mixture these young chickens make excellent
ing of Put in your trussed bird and turn over a moderate fire for ten minutes, stock. Put them into cold water it over so that it gets covered with allow to cool a little, and bind with together with the neck, feet, gizzard. the fat, season well with salt and pepper, cover closely and cook over
Simple
well-beaten egg.
Spatchcocked.
over 1.
ADDITIONAL JOTTINGS:
fancieder and grated nutmeg (1
Top inyer is of grated breadcrumbs and cheese dotted with butter.
baked to The whole
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and kidneys, bring slowly to the ball, add sliced onions, carrots, pea-pods, DEVILLED KIDNEYS nice brown in the oven. medium flame until tender. Turn Stuff your poussins or your bouquet of herbs, mushroom peel-
Can be very hot stuff. The chances of
of this dish will be the bird every ten minutes and, if chicken and cook as in above recipe; ings, tomato pulp, and simmer 2-3 The kidneys are split and grill- much improved wit
with a change from it sizzles too loudly and you fear in hot fat in a closely covered pot. hours. You can then strain some off burning, add one or two tablespoon-
and serve it as chicken broth at dined in the usual way, and are previously cooked mushrooms, ar stable ingredients. Try layers of fuls of water.
ner that night, served with grated served on toast or fried bread tomatoes, or sweet corn, or bacon, or with a pat of devil butter on shrimps, or white fish, or a mixture QUITABLE for poussins up This stock is naturally invaluable
of some of these things. It will show to four months old. Split as a foundation for soups, and alsa each. Serve plain with. green salad, the poussins in half, cut off the legs makes excellent white sauce when This can be made at home with you are a tṛler, anyway. Gravy and bread sauce can be made to first joint (these may be devilled substituted for milk.
butter, pepper, salt, cayenne, curry
Home Page Cook powder, chutney and lemon, worked
Small poussins will take twenty
to thirty minutes to cook. A full-
grown 4lbs. chicken needs an hour.
cheese,
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