Chicken Casserole

Ingredients

• One medium sized chicken 
• Butter 
• Onion 
• Salt 
• Pepper 
• Mushrooms 
• Other vegetables 

Directions

1. Prepare one medium sized chicken. 
2. First you will need to singe the chicken to help remove the feathers. 
3. To singe the chicken you will need to place the chicken into a large cooking pot with boiling water for only half a minute. 
4. Pluck out the feathers. 
5. Cut on the back of the chickens neck making long enough to gut. (Drawing) 
6. Clean and rinse off the chicken to prepare it to be cooked. 
7. Put the chicken whole into a casserole dish. 
8. Add a good lump of butter, some onion, and salt and pepper all over the chicken. 
9. Steam the chicken gently for 2 hours on the top range. 
10. Add in mushrooms and other preferred vegetables to your chicken and cook until brown. 
11. Serve hot. 

— Lizzie Tomney.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Kirsten Smith

Louisiana Anthology

July 12, 2017