Chicken Croquettes
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- 1 chicken
- 2 eggs
- pepper
- salt
- crackers
- 2 eggs
- lard
Instructions
- Boil the chicken until very tender.
- Pick the meat into pieces and remove all gristle.
- Chop the chicken meat fine.
- Beat two eggs and mix into the meat.
- Season with pepper and salt.
- Form the mixture into oblong-shaped cakes.
- Powder crackers finely.
- Dip each cake into two beaten eggs.
- Roll in the powdered crackers until well coated.
- Have your lard very hot and fry the croquettes just before sending them to the table.