Appetizer Recipes

Chicken Cutlets Recipe

Ingredients for Chicken Cutlets

• 2 cups cooked chicken
• 4 tablespoons chopped mushrooms
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon parsley
• ½ teaspoon onion juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons butter or other fat
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 cup milk or cream
• 4 eggs

Instructions

1. Mix the chicken, mushrooms, salt, pepper, parsley and the onion and lemon juice.
2. Make a white sauce with the fat, flour and milk or cream.
3. Add the chicken, and cook for three minutes.
4. Stir in two of the eggs beaten until light.
5. Take from the fire immediately, pour into a greased, flat dish and set in a cold place for an hour or so.
6. The colder the mixture becomes, the better it may be handled.
7. Shape into cutlets, either in molds or with a knife, and sprinkle both sides of each cutlet with fine crumbs.
8. Beat the other two eggs in deep plates.
9. Dip the cutlets in the egg, then in crumbs, put them in a frying basket, not crowding them, and cook in deep fat for two minutes.
10. Serve with Bechamel or mushroom sauce.

Shirred Eggs Recipe

Ingredients for Shirred Eggs

• 6 eggs
• 3 tablespoons cream
• 1 tablespoon butter
• Salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Butter a pie pan or shallow baking sheet.
2. Melt the butter, add the eggs, one at a time, taking care not to break the yolks; pour over this cream, dust with salt and pepper and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes or until the white is set.
3. Muffin rings may be buttered and placed on a buttered pan or baking sheet and the eggs dropped into the rings and baked as directed.