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Five ways

ways of cooking a Spring Chicken

by

HESTER

VALENTINE

for breakfast), brush lightly with melted butter, and grill.

Serve with a sharp sauco-such as turtare (add chopped capers and gherkins to a thick mayonnaise) or robert (brown a chopped onion in butter stir in a dessertspoonful flour, add half pint strong stock and port- ††† glassful red wine. Simmer for

hour and season with pinch salt, little dry mustard, and cayenne or paprika pepper),

A

FIRST of all you must prepare a bird for cooking.

cockerel should fast (but be allowed plenty of water) for twenty-four hours before it is killed and may hang two to four days (according to weather) before it is eaten.

to it.

hour.

Viennese

SUITABLE for poussins up

to four months old.

Cut

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8.0 Mevilled Kidneys

1.0

Macaroni Cheese

7.30 Chicken Portugaise

TO-DAY'S

NAP:

Chicken Portugaise

(should go well in almost any company.) 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 (frat 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 lege with of garlic, and put the chicken and bacon into it. Shake

the wings), sprinkle each piece over à flame. This will remove any fluff or quills still adhering salt and

stand uside for half an over them a tablespoonful of flour. Fry them, turning Dust lightly with seasoned flour, occasionally, until they take on a good brown colour. dip into beaten egg-yolk, roll in fine

Then remove any superfluous fat and add three white breadcrumbs, and fry in deep fat unill a good golden colour. medium-sized onions cut into rings, and half a pound of Serve with slices of lemon and skinned and sliced tomatoes. Pour in two glasses of If possible get an experienced friend, or friend's cook, to

tar- Mayonnaise or demonstrate to you whole business of preparing the bird. It is tare sauce are also excellent with sherry and season with pepper and salt. Cook gently quite simple, but much easier to learn from a practical demons- fried chicken.

for three-quarters of an hour. tration than from a written description.

Next remove the inside, carefully reserving the gizzard, liver, and kidneys. When the bird is to be cooked whole it must be trussed into shape with wooden skewers and string.

Personally I do not think young if liked, though personally I think a cooked in the poussin, at any rate, is better on its chickens should be

oven. Unless the greatest care and own. trouble are taken they are apt to Kel dry wid lose their delicate flavour. It is far better either to split and grill them or to cook them whole In a closely covered pol.

Simple

Stuffed PREPARE

green salad.

With Tarragon

Arrange the pieces of chicken together in proportions to suit any A swifter method is to buy a small ELT good lump of butter on a hot dish, shake the con- taste. MELT

is quite pot of devil pasle. This in iron pot, add 1⁄2 pint tents of the pan together, and slock, when boiling add five or six pour them over the bird.

inexpensive, and any good grocer will order. it for you if he does not sprigs of tarragon and the chicken

CHICKEN may not run,

on the kidneys before cooking them.

MACARONI

stuffing with (3-4lbs.). Simmer, closely covered, LATE WIRE FROM stock it. Spread a little of the paste the poussins' livers, clean- until tender, turning the bird every

THIS COURSE: ed and finely chopped, three or four ten minutes. Strain the stock und Here are some of my favourite lightly cooked and finely chopped simmer, it for a further ten minutes recipes:-

mushrooms, one or two chopped with a tablespoonful of chopped tar- shallots, chopped herbs (parsley, ragon leaves. tarragon, thyme, chervil, marjoram), Allow to cool a little and thicken MELT two to four ounces salt, pepper, and a thick slice of carefully with yolks of two IVA (according to number of crustless white bread soaked in muk and a little cream. Season and re-rabbit will make an excellent known. The

beat, but do not let it boil. Joint substitute. This tip holds good (but only just) in boiling, salted "petits poussins" or size of chicken) and well mashed.

the cooked chicken and pour tarrn- for many similar dishes. dripping or butter in an iron sauce-

Mix all the above Ingredients well gon sauce over pan or u casserole. Add sliced

1

melted together, ond add to some

it. Remember that the bones of all

is cooked

*

CHEESE-Waś named after a horse called or it may not run to Macaroni, which won the Derby in eggs chicken. In this case jointed 1883. Or was it?

well The usual form of this dish

acaroni water. Alternate layers of macaroni and grated cheese are put in a buttered fireproof dish with a season- ing of peoper and grated nutmeg (if fancled). Top layer is of grated breadcrumbs and cheese dotted with butter. The whole is baked to A The chances of this dish will be with a change from stable previously cooked mushrooms, or

onion and fry until gold turn butter in a saucepan. Stir mixture these young chickens make excellent Put in your trussed bird and

over a moderate fire for ten minutes, stock. Put them into cold water it over so that H gets covered with allow to cool a little, and bind with together with the neck, fect, gizzard, the fut, season well with salt and pepper, cover closely and cook over a well-beaten egg.

a medium flame until tender. Turn

Stuff your poussins or

and kidneys, bring slowly to the boll, add sliced onions, carrots, pea-pods,

yourquet of herbs, mushroom peel-

the bird every ten minutes and, if chicken and cook as in above recipe;

It sizzics too loudly and you fear in hot fat in a closely covered pot. burning, add one or two tablespoon-

fuls of water.

Small poussing will take twenty

to thirty minutes to cook. A full-

grown dibs..chicken needs an hour.

Spatchcocked

ADDITIONAL

JOTTINGS:

DEVILLED KIDNEYS nice brown In the over

Can be very hot stuff.

You can then strain some ofr/The kidneys are split and grill- much imperig is. Try layers of

tomate pulp, and simmer 2-3 hours.

serve

and

cheese.

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as chicken broth at dined in the usual way, and are ner that night, served with grated served on toast or fried bread tomatoes, or sweet corn, or bacon, or SUITABLE for poussins up "This stock is naturally invaluable with a pat of devil butter on shrimps, or white fish, or a mixture

Split as a foundation for soups, and also each.

to four months old.

Serve plain with a green salad, the poussins in half, cut off the legs makes excellent white sauce when Gravy and bread sauce can be made to first joint (these may be devilled substituted for milk.

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