Ingredients
- one chicken
- one answered the part of the fowl she desired was given
Directions
Take chicken four months old, clean nicely, and dry. Cut in small pieces, roll in flour, lay in dripping pan, sprinkle plenty of salt and pepper, dot with butter, cover with sweet milk and
294 THE ARIZONA COOK BOOK
bake a nice brown, turn and brown the other side. Bake slowly at first till milk is mostly absorbed. For gravy, sprinkle in a little flour and add more milk or water, if preferred. — Mrs. Otto Lebsch, Williams, Ariz.
Pat O'Brien gave a dinner, to which he invited three or four of his neighbors. Pat had allowed his wife to cook only one chicken. When dinner was served, Pat took possession of the carving knife, and, in a hospitable tone, said to Mrs. Dugan: "What part of the fowl will you have?"
"A leg, if you please," was the answer.
"An* what part .will yez have? Would yez loike some of the white?" Pat inquired of Mrs. O'Hooligan.
"An" a leg will do me," she answered.
As each one answered the part of the fowl she desired was given her.
"What part will yez have, Moike Walsh?" Pat blindly inquired of his neighbor.
"Oi belave Oi will take a leg, too," said Mike, in his most modest way, wishing to follow in the footsteps of the rest of the company.
"Eegorra," said Pat to Mickey, "what does yez think Oi'm carvin — a spider?"