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Article: DOWN-HOME COOKING: SOUTHERN COMFORT AUTHOR PIECES TOGETHER A PORTRAIT OF ANTEBELLUM PLANTATION LIFE IN LETTERS AND RECIPES.(FLAVOR)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1997
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Byline: BILL RUEHLMANN, SPECIAL TO FLAVOR
BEFORE KFC - shoot, before Col. Sanders was born - they cooked:
Boil a chicken with the giblets until tender.
Set aside until cold, then cut into pieces 1/2-inch square. Put into a stewpan with pepper, salt, 3 hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, a teacup of the broth the fowl boiled in, a coffee cup of cream and a piece of butter rolled in flour the size of an egg. Set on the fire and simmer for 10 minutes.
Then add a teacup of wine and serve.
That recipe, for Chicken Terrapin, is 150 years old. It doesn't date. It was a sure-fire finger-licker then and so it remains, one stubborn constant ...
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