Pressed Chicken
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the chicken
Place the cut fowls in a kettle with a tight cover.
Add water, salt, and pepper.
Cook until the meat easily separates from the bones.
Prepare the meat
Remove skin, bones, and gristle.
Chop the meat for chicken salad.
Season well.
Press and set
Place in a dish.
Pour the remaining cooking juice over the meat.
Let it cool to jelly.
Slice or serve in shape.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Fowls
- Provide the meat, and the bones and skin release gelatin that helps the dish set.
- Water
- Forms the cooking liquid that draws out gelatin and, once cooled, turns to a jelly.
The step that matters
Cook until the meat easily separates from the bones. Keep the kettle at a gentle simmer under a tight cover. Vigorous boiling toughens the meat and makes the broth cloudy, while slow cooking draws enough gelatin from the bones for the juice to set firmly when cooled.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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