Chicken and Mushroom Filling for Patty Shells
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Chicken and Mushroom Filling for Patty Shells

Ingredients

  • 2 cup cooked chicken, diced
  • 1/4 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 cup button mushrooms, diced
  • 2/3 cup flour
  • 3 tablespoon pimentoes, cut fine
  • 2/3 cup chicken fat
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 cup milk

Directions

  1. Melt the fat, add the flour and salt; mix thoroughly.
  2. Add one-half a cup of milk.
  3. Cook until thick, remove from the fire and heat one minute.
  4. Add one cup of milk and reheat.
  5. When it thickens, beat vigorously until creamy.
  6. Add the rest of the milk, and cook until thicker than vegetable white sauce.
  7. Add the chicken, mushrooms and pimentoes.
  8. Serve hot in patty cases.
  9. To prepare the cases for serving, heat until hot in a moderate oven.
  10. To obtain the chicken fat, cook a fat chicken slowly for a long time.
  11. Remove the chicken from the stock and allow the stock to cool.
  12. The fat will rise to the top.
  13. Use this instead of butter.
  14. It has a better flavor and is cheaper.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Main Dish, Meat

Ingredients: chicken, paprika, mushroom, flour, pimentoe, chicken fat, salt, milk

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, egg beater, stove

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