Chicken Pudding (A Favourite Virginia Dish)

Ingredients

• 10 eggs
• 1 quart rich milk
• 1/4 pound butter
• pepper
• salt
• flour
• 4 young chickens
• salt
• water
• 1 bundle thyme and parsley

Instructions

1. Beat ten eggs very light.
2. Add to them a quart of rich milk, with a quarter of a pound of butter melted, and some pepper and salt.
3. Stir in as much flour as will make a thin good batter.
4. Take four young chickens, and after cleaning them nicely, cut off the legs, wings, &c.
5. Put them all in a sauce pan with some salt and water, and a bundle of thyme and parsley; boil them till nearly done.
6. Then take the chicken from the water and put it in the batter.
7. Pour it in a dish and bake it.
8. Send nice white gravy in a boat.