Chickens surprise
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Chickens surprise
English Housewifery Exemplified 
1763
Dairy & Poultry etc (n/a)
Rice
Chickens
Mace
Salt
Bacon
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Instructions
| Take half a pound of rice, set it over a fire in soft water, when it is half-boiled put in two or three small chickens trussed, with two or three blades of mace, and a little salt; take a piece of bacon about three inches square, and boil it in water whilst almost enough, then take it out, pare off the outsides, and put it into the chickens and rice to boil a little together; (you must not let the broth be over thick with rice) then take up your chickens, lay them on a dish, pour over them the rice, cut your bacon in thin slices to lay round your chickens, and upon the breast of each a slice. |
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Date added: 2008/11/27
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