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Pressed' Chicken

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pressed' Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the chickens in a small amount of water with a little coarse sea salt until fully cooked.

  2. Remove all the meat from the bones, keeping the light and dark meat separate.

  3. Chop the meat finely and season to taste.

  4. In a pan, layer the dark and light meat.

  5. Add the reserved chicken broth, about 1 cup.

  6. Press the mixture with a small weight.

  7. Once cold, cut into slices.

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.

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