Fowls (Stewed) (My Mother's Recipe.)
Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891
Instructions
- You will need: 2 nice young fowls; a tablespoonful of butter and one of fat; onions; 1 wineglass of white wine; a blade of mace; 2 oz. of vermicelli; macaroni; allspice and pepper for a tiny muslin bag; and stuffing for the chickens.
- Have your chickens nicely cleaned and singed, then skewer and stuff them with the ordinary stuffing used for turkey.
- Put the allspice and pepper into a tiny muslin bag.
- Set the chickens on a slow fire in a flat baking-pot with a cup of water, two or three white onions (only peeled and slit across the top), the little bag of spice, and the butter and fat.
- Let it simmer for an hour, turning the breast downwards.
- When nearly done, stir in the vermicelli and the macaroni. Add a little white stock if necessary.
- Remove the bag of spice and place the fowls on a dish.
- Just before serving, whip up an egg with a glass of wine or some lemon juice and pour it over the chickens. Serve. Very good.