Meal #3 from chickens

Jan 6, 2012 by pearsonsprogress    7 Comments    Posted under: Blogroll, food, Grocery Challenge, recipes, saving money

Stewing Chicken Backs

Meal #3 is made from the backs of the chicken. I usually make rolled tacos with this meat but this time I’m trying out a recipe from this OLD cookbook I bought at a yard sale about 35 years ago. It was originally published in 1948 with a revision in 1965. It doesn’t use ingredients one would often find in today’s cookbooks; like: chocolate chips or canned soups and they are generally simpler. This is exactly how the recipe reads and in red font I will add my changes

Tamale Pie

1 cup cornmeal~I will use polenta

4 cups water

1 teaspoon salt

1 medium onion

1 green or chili pepper

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 ½ cups of cooked tomatoes~I will use canned tomatoes

2 cups ground cooked fowl~I’ll leave my  chicken in bits…not ground

1 teaspoon salt

Dash cayenne or chili pepper.

Cook cornmeal, water & salt in top of double boiler 45 minutes. ~I’ll cook mine on the stove not double boiler.

Chop onion and pepper and fry in hot oil.

Add tomatoes, meat, salt and cayenne or chili and cook until thickened.

Line a greased baking dish with half  the mush, pour in the meat mixture, cover with the remaining mush and bake in a moderately hot oven (375°F) about 30 minutes or until the top is lightly browned.

Serves 6-8~ this we’ll be eating for several meals. John will find this for breakfast with an egg on top!

I’ll use ½ of the chicken broth from the cooking of the backs to make a cream of broccoli soup which is made with the broccoli stocks in the fridge (I throw away as little as possible) + some water I used to cook broccoli. I added a potato to thicken it, seasonings and will finish with whole fat cream.

The old FABULOUS cookbook

3 chicken backs = this amount

Tags: Chicken, chicken backs, Tamale pie

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  john pearson January 6, 2012 at 6:37 am

  when they start off in the pan they look a little rough but later they will turn into some tasty dish. yum, I can hardly wait to see what delectable treat these become…

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  Anita January 6, 2012 at 7:53 am

  i made fried much for the fam a couple months ago. it was a hit!

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  Jerusha January 6, 2012 at 10:20 am

  nice work!

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  Jesseka January 6, 2012 at 3:12 pm

  I had to suppress the gag reflex when I first saw the photo, but I know dad is right-it will be good in the end….

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    pearsonsprogress January 6, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    that’s hilarious!! what is it with raw meat that causes that? I really dig it. one of my favorite things… to cut up meat!

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  john pearson January 7, 2012 at 1:05 am

  I also like to cut up meat, especially when it’s cooked and laying on my plate next to potatoes. Also, The polenta-chicken dish was great. I ate too much… ugh.. I will never be thin…

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  JohnC. January 28, 2012 at 2:35 pm

  Wish you had been with us a few days ago when we butchered 9 deer…It was a meat cutters heaven. 12 hours of nothing but meat cutting.

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