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Fowl and Game Recipes
FRIED CHICKEN. MRS. J. ED. THOMAS.
Kill the fowls the night before; clean, cut and set on ice until
needed the next day. Flour and sprinkle with salt and pepper; pour
boiling water over it, and stew three-quarters of an hour. Add
sufficient butter to fry a light brown.
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One of Frank’s most memorable commercials is “Dinner with Three Beautiful Guests.”
In the commercial, while Frank roasts four fresh Cornish game hens, he showers; shaves; puts on a tuxedo; chills some champagne; arranges flowers in a vase; turns on soft music; and then opens the door to greet three ravishing beauties. The commercial has been so successful that the advertising agency produced a sequel, dramatizing an actual letter that arrived at Perdue Farms’ consumer relations department:
“Mr. Perdue, I have a complaint. I prepared four of your Cornish hens just as you did on T.V. I showered and shaved just as you did on T.V. I dressed as you did on T.V. I chilled the wine, and laid the birds on a bed of wild rice just as you did on T.V. Your advertising is misleading. No pretty girls have knocked on my door.”
People sometimes ask me if the original ad
Makes me jealous. Actually it’s my favorite.
Chicken Recipes - The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
Copyright (C) by Mitzi Perdue - Used with Permission
Serves 4
This recipe originally called for much more ginger, but I like a milder flavor, so I reduced it. You may want to increase the amount suggested here if you like highly seasoned food. To store fresh ginger, keep it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag along with a dampened paper towel to keep it from drying out.
4 roaster boneless thigh cutlets
2 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil
1/3 cup soy sauce, divided
3 tablespoons molasses
3 tablespoons rice wine or white distilled vinegar
2 teaspoons minced, fresh ginger or to taste
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes or ground pepper
pinch ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 cup carrots, cut in match stick strips
1 cup peeled cucumber, halved, seeded and cut into match-stick strips
1/2 cup thinly sliced scallions
Cut thighs into 1/8-inch strips. In a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add chicken and stir-fry for 2 minutes Add 4 tablespoons soy sauce, molasses, vinegar, seasonings, garlic and ginger; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low and steam chicken 5 minutes, stirring once, until tender. In a small bowl dissolve cornstarch in remaining soy sauce and reserve. Add carrots and steam, covered, 2 minutes. Stir in cucumber, scallions and cornstarch mixture and stir until liquid comes to a boil. Serve over hot fluffy rice.
Chicken Recipes - The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
Copyright (C) by Mitzi Perdue - Used with Permission
MAPLE FONDANT ACORNS
2 cups of maple syrup,
1-3/4 cups of granulated sugar,
3/4 a cup of cold water,
Confectioner’s sugar,
2 or more squares of Baker’s Chocolate,
1 teaspoon of vanilla,
About 1/4 a cup of fine-chopped almonds, browned in the oven.
Make fondant of the syrup, granulated sugar and cold water, following
the directions given for fondant made of granulated sugar (cream of
tartar or other acid is not required in maple fondant). Work some of the
fondant, adding confectioner’s sugar as needed, into cone shapes; let
these stand an hour or longer to harden upon the outside. Put a little
of the fondant in a dish over hot water; add Baker’s Chocolate and
vanilla as desired and beat till the chocolate is evenly mixed through
the fondant, then dip the cones in the chocolate and set them on a piece
of oil cloth or waxed paper. When all are dipped, lift the first one
dipped from the paper and dip the base again in the chocolate, and then
in the chopped-and-browned almonds. Continue until all have been dipped.
CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE
This is the same as the Cocoa Marble Cake. Add to one-third of the
mixture one and one-half squares of Baker’s Chocolate in place of the
cocoa, and one cup of chopped walnuts to the other part in place of the
shredded cocoanut.
In contrast to the preceding recipes, these recipes have more ingredients and require more preparation time, but if you’ve got the time, they’re worth it. If you want to minimize time in the kitchen using these recipes, here are some suggestions.
Tips for Saving Time in the Kitchen
_To halve baking time, select boneless chicken breasts. Cooking time is only 15-20 minutes at 350oF. A bone-in breast takes 35-45 minutes.
_Stir fry chicken can be done in as little as 4 minutes.
_Cook double batches and freeze the extras in serving size packages. On days when time is short, pop a package into the microwave for “fast food.”
_Take advantage of your supermarket’s time-saving convenience items. If you’re in a hurry, don’t bother to slice and chop your fresh ingredients. The salad bar has probably done it for you. You can also find time savers such as shredded cheese and frozen chopped onion. (The supermarket industry has watched restaurants and fast food stores take more and more of your food dollars away each year. They’re now doing everything they can think of to reverse this trend and make supermarket shopping so attractive, quick, convenient and economical that you’ll want to cook at home.)
_Learn to cook chicken in the microwave. A pound of broiler parts that would take 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven takes only 6-10 minutes in the microwave. See Chapter Four, Chicken in the Microwave.
Chicken Recipes - The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
Copyright (C) by Mitzi Perdue - Used with Permission
SUPERIOR COLD CREAM.
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Melt together one drachm of spermacetti, the same quantity of white
wax, and two fluid ounces of oil of almond; while these are still
warm, beat up with them as much rose water as they will absorb. This
is a very healing kind of cold cream. The usual cold cream sold by
perfumers is nothing more than lard, beat up with rose-water, which is
heating and irritating to the skin.
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EGG WINE.
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Beat a fresh egg, and add it to a tumbler of white wine and water,
sweetened and spiced; set it on the fire, stir it gently one way until
it thickens; this, with toast, forms a light nutritive supper.
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VERMICELLI SOUP
1 oz. Vermicelli—1d.
Vegetables and Saffron
2 quarts Bone Stock—1d.
Total Cost—2 d.
Time—One Hour
The stock for this soup should be good and in a strong jelly when cold. Put it into a saucepan with three or four threads of saffron, an onion or leek stuck with six cloves, 1 dozen white peppercorns and some salt, and boil all together for half an hour; then strain out the vegetables and put it back into the saucepan. It should be of a bright straw colour; if it is not, a thread more saffron may be added before straining. Put in the vermicelli broken small, and simmer for twenty minutes; it is then ready to serve.
CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE
Half a pint of milk, two ounces of Chocolate, three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, one rounding tablespoonful of butter, two
tablespoonfuls of flour, four eggs.
Put the milk in the double-boiler, and place on the fire. Beat the
butter to a soft cream, and beat the flour into it. Gradually pour the
hot milk on this, stirring all the time. Return to the fire and cook for
six minutes. Put the shaved chocolate, sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of
water in a small pan over a hot fire, and stir until smooth and glossy.
Stir this into the mixture in the double-boiler. Take from the fire and
add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten; then set away to cool. When cool
add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Pour the batter
into a well-buttered earthen dish that will hold about a quart, and cook
in a moderate oven for twenty-two minutes. Serve immediately with
vanilla cream sauce.