Italian Chicken Recipes

Ingredients: Chicken, butter, fat bacon, ham, mushrooms, truffles, herbs, spice, gravy.

Directions: Cut up a chicken in peaces and cook it in a fricassee of butter, bacon, ham, herbs, mushrooms, truffles, spice, and good gravy or stock. Serve hot in its own gravy.

Ingredients: Chicken, bacon, ham, bay leaf, spice, garlic, Burgundy, tomatoes.

Directions: Braize a chicken with bits of fat bacon, ham, a bay leaf, a clove of garlic with one cut in it, a pinch of spice, and a glass of Burgundy. Only leave the garlic in for five minutes. When cooked serve with tomato sauce.

Ingredients: Chicken, onions, celery, salt, parsley, carrots, butter, stock, olives, tomatoes.

Directions: Cut up half an onion, a stick of celery, a sprig of parsley, a carrot, and cook them all in a quarter pound of butter. Into this put a chicken cut up and let it act brown all over, turn when necessary and then baste it with boiling stock. Add four Spanish olives cut up and four others pounded in a mortar, eight whole olives and three tablespoonsful of tomato puree reduced, and when
the fowl is well cooked pour the sauce over it.