730. CHICKEN PIE, A LA REINE

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
Source
The modern cook
Time
Cook: 90 min Total: 90 min
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Ingredients (18)
For the pie
Alternative ingredients
Instructions (14)
  1. Cut two chickens into small pieces as for fricassee.
  2. Cover the bottom of the pie-dish with layers of scollops of veal and ham placed alternately.
  3. Season with chopped mushroom and parsley, pepper and salt.
  4. Add a little white sauce.
  5. Place the pieces of chicken in neat order in the dish.
  6. Round the chicken pieces, put a plover's egg in each cavity.
  7. Repeat the seasoning and the sauce.
  8. Lay a few thin slices of dressed ham neatly trimmed on the top.
  9. Cover the pie with puff-paste.
  10. Ornament the puff-paste with pieces cut into the form of leaves, etc.
  11. Egg the pie over with a paste-brush.
  12. Bake it for one hour and a half.
Alternative preparation
  1. A very good chicken pie may be made by omitting the plovers' eggs, mushrooms, ham, and the sauce.
  2. Substitute for these the yolks of eggs boiled hard, chopped parsley, bacon, and a little mushroom-catsup, or some common gravy, or even water.
Original Text
730. CHICKEN PIE, A LA REINE. CUT two chickens into small members as for fricasee; cover the bottom of the pie-dish with layers of scollops of veal and ham placed alternately; season with chopped mushroom and parsley, pepper and salt, then add a little white sauce; next, place in the dish the pieces of chicken in neat order, and round these put a plover's egg in each cavity; repeat the seasoning and the sauce; lay a few thin slices of dressed ham neatly trimmed on the top; cover the pie with puff-paste, ornament this with pieces of the same cut into the form of leaves, &c, egg the pie over with a paste-brush, and bake it for one hour and a half. A very good chicken pie may be made by omitting the plovers' eggs, mushrooms, ham, and the sauce—substituting for these, the yolks of eggs boiled hard, chopped parsley, bacon, and a little mushroom- catsup, or some common gravy, or even water.
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