Chicken Pie - American Recipe

Chicken Pie

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

Traditional chicken pie — straightforward 1920s home cooking.

Ingredients

Method

1. Prepare — a Chicken Fricassee as directed in the previous recipe.
2. Place — a small cup, bottom side up, in the centre of a baking-dish, and arrange the pieces of chicken in the dish around this cup.
3. Pour — enough of the gravy into the baking-dish so that it is nearly full, and then allow the whole to cool.
4. Prepare — Plain Pastry dough (page 85), roll the dough out into one thick sheet, and make several short cuts through the centre of the sheet with a sharp knife.
5. Fit — the dough over the top of the baking-dish, and trim off the dough that projects beyond the edges of the dish.
6. Bake — in a moderate oven about thirty minutes, or until the crust is delicately browned.

Tags: chicken · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Cross-References

• See (page 85)