The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !


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RECIPE

 

32. Chicken Pie.

  Cover the bottom of a pie-dish with slices of raw ham or
veal ; season with salt and pepper ; over this place two young
raw chickens ; cut each into four parts ; season likewise
with pepper and salt ; add six yolks of eggs, boiled hard, and
moisten with a gill of gravy; cover the pie with a flat of
puff paste ; adorn it, egg it, and bake it in a moderate oven
for one hour and a half. If the pie is to be eaten cold,
you can mix in the gravy two leaves of dissolved gelatin.
 
 

 

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