Boiled Fowls a la Bechamel

Origin: London, England

Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Truss and boil the fowls by recipe No. 938; make a pint of Béchamel sauce by recipe No. 367;
  2. pour some of this over the fowls, and the remainder send to table in a tureen.
  3. Garnish the dish with bunches of boiled cauliflowers or brocoli, and serve very hot.
  4. The sauce should be made sufficiently thick to adhere to the fowls; that for the tureen should be thinned by adding a spoonful or two of stock.

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