Boiled Fowls a la Bechamel
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- A pair of fowls
- 1 pint Béchamel
- a few bunches of boiled brocoli or cauliflower
Instructions
- Truss and boil the fowls by recipe No. 938; make a pint of Béchamel sauce by recipe No. 367;
- pour some of this over the fowls, and the remainder send to table in a tureen.
- Garnish the dish with bunches of boiled cauliflowers or brocoli, and serve very hot.
- 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.