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Chicken Tea

A simple chicken tea made by boiling a young chicken leg and wing in water with salt, then skimming and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855 · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients
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Chicken Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the leg and wing of a young chicken in cold water.

  2. Put it in a stew pan with a pint of water and a little salt.

  3. Cover it and let it boil for twenty minutes.

  4. Skim and strain it.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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. See the original page.

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