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 CHICKEN FRICASSEE


 * MATERIALS

Small chicken

4 tablespoons flour

4 tablespoons butter

1½ teaspoons salt

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

½ cup cream or milk


 * UTENSILS

Meat-knife

Saucepan

Large spoon

2 bowls

DIRECTIONS

With a meat-knife separate the legs and wings of the chicken from the body, cut the body in two, length-wise along the back-bone, and cut each half of the body into two parts. Wash the pieces of chicken and dry them. Put the chicken in a saucepan and barely cover it with boiling water. Set the saucepan over the fire, cover it, reduce the heat so that the water will simmer, and cook for forty minutes, removing the scum as it rises to the surface of the water. Remove the pieces of chicken from the saucepan to a bowl, and pour the liquid from the saucepan into another bowl. Melt the butter in the saucepan, add the flour, salt, and pepper, and mix thoroughly until no lumps remain. Measure out 3 cups of the hot liquid in which the chicken has cooked, and add it slowly to the butter and flour in the saucepan, stirring constantly until it thickens and boils.</li> <li>Add the cream or milk and the parsley to this gravy, and put the pieces of chicken into it.</li><section end="CHICKEN_FRICASSEE" /> </ol>