Creamed Chafing Dish Recipes

Creamed Dishes Recipe

Eggs, oysters, lobsters, crabs, shrimps, fish, chicken or lamb, tongue, etc., peas, asparagus tips, etc., are the ingredients usually selected for these dishes. Make a white sauce, using stock, milk or cream, or a part of each as the liquid; season with a few drops of onion juice, chopped parsley, celery salt, paprika or curry powder, and add the cooked article; oysters need be parboiled and drained before being added to the sauce or the large quantity of liquid in them will change the dish to a stew. Fish is improved for a creamed dish by standing in a marinade (lemon and onion juice, chopped parsley, salt and pepper) some hours before reheating in the chafing dish.

Creamed Chicken, Potatoes And Peppers Recipe

Sauté half a green pepper, chopped fine, in three tablespoonfuls of butter five or six minutes. Add three tablespoonfuls of flour and half a teaspoonful of salt. When frothy, add gradually a cup of chicken stock and half a cup of cream, stir until smooth and at the boiling point, then set over hot water and heat in the sauce one cup of chicken, cut in cubes, and half a cup of cold cooked potatoes, also cut in cubes. Turnip, carrot, peas, or asparagus tips may be substituted for the potato.