1908 Cream of Chicken or Rabbit

Won first prize in the Sunday Times Recipe contest (reference)

Ingredients:

  • ½ pint (300 ml) boiling water

  • 3 oz (30g) butter

  • 1 - 2 tablespoons of flour

  • Meat of 1 rabbit or chicken

  • 2 tablespoons thick white sauce

  • 2 tablespoons cream

  • 2 eggs

  • pepper and salt to taste

Method:

  1. Remove meat from bones and put through mincing machine twice

  2. Boil water, 2 oz butter and flour together for 5 minutes to make panard then combine with meat in a ratio of 6 oz of panard for every 10 oz of meat.

  3. Mix white sauce, cream, eggs, rest of butter and pepper and salt together and add to the meat. Place the mixture in a buttered mould and stand in a stewing pan with enough boiling water to come 3 parts up the mould and place on stove

  4. Watch the water reboil then draw pan to side of stove (turn down to low heat) and let steam for 30 mins. Turn out and serve.

Submitted by Mrs. W. Brewin, Holland-street, East Fremantle