Stewed Chicken With Salt Pork

Prepare chicken the same as for fried chicken, cut in pieces and put on the fire in a kettle with cold water enough to cover well; add a little salt pork and boil until tender. Break open some baking-powder biscuits, place on a platter; on these put the chicken; thicken the gravy with flour, add seasoning and cream; pour this over the chicken and serve at once. - Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Winnetka, 111.

Stewed Chicken

Place a layer of bacon in bottom of stew-kettle, then a layer of chicken, season and sprinkle a little flour, and repeat. Fill kettle with water until within 1/2 inch of top of meat, cover tightly and cook about 2 hrs.; do not stir only turn. round in the pot. Skim off the grease, add butter and a little flour for gravy. - Mrs. B. Siberman, 4801 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111.

Brunswick Stew

Disjoint 1 fowl, cut 3 or 4 oz. of ham in pieces and saute them in the 3 tablespoons of hot lard to a golden brown; remove the chicken to a stew-pan (iron must not be used) and saute, 1 sliced onion and 1 qt. of green okra pods, cut in pieces; then add 1/3 cup of flour and, when well blended with the fat, of which may be needed more, add gradually a qt. of water; when boiling add to the chicken with another qr. of water, 3 or 4 tomatoes, skins removed, 1/2 small pod of red pepper, 1/3 of a bay leaf, 2 sprigs of thyme, and a little salt; let simmer, covered, very slowly, until the fowl is cooked, adding more water, if needed, also salt. In serving, add a spoon of boiled rice to each plate. - Mrs. C, E. Worth, Wheeling, 111.

Variation I

2 squirrels, well skinned and cleaned, or 2 small chickens; put into a large kettle with 2 qts. of cold water., Add 1 slice of bacon, 2 qts. of tomatoes, 6 large potatoes, sliced t'uir, 1 qt. of Lima beans, 2 large onions, sliced, 1 tablespoon of salt, and 1/2 a teaspoon of pepper. Let it stew until tender. Add more water as it boils away. Add 6 ears of corn cut from the cob, cook 20 minutes longer, being very careful not to let it burn. - Mrs. C. E. Worth, Wheeling, 111.