Boiled Chickens with Stuffing

 Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken
• Wheat flour
• Stuffing of choice
• Hard-boiled egg sauce, or parsley, or oyster sauce

Directions

1. Truss and stuff the chicken as for roasting, dredge it all over with wheat flour, and put it in a pot of boiling water. 
2. Take the pot off heat for 5 minutes after the chicken is put in, or the skin will crack. 
3. Let the chicken boil gently according to its age and weight; an old fowl requiring twice as long to boil than a young one. Allow 15 minutes per pound to cook. 
4. Remove the scum as it rises, and once done, serve with hard-boiled egg sauce, or parsley, or oyster sauce. 

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Hailey Jacobs
Louisiana Anthology
September 18, 2022