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Main Dish

Baked Chicken

From the kitchen of Sally Hayes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup chicken fat or margarine
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • 1 can mushroom soup and 1 can milk
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 1 pkg Waverly or club crackers
  • 2 chickens, cooked with celery and onion

Instructions

  1. Melt butter.
  2. Stir in flour.
  3. Add chicken broth slowly and mix well.
  4. Add soup and one soup can of milk, salt and pepper.
  5. Cook and stir over medium heat until it thickens (may take 20 minutes).
  6. Layer: cracker crumbs, chicken, sauce.
  7. Repeat again.
  8. Cracker crumbs on top.
  9. Sprinkle with paprika on top.
  10. Bake at 350° uncovered, 20-30 minutes or until bubbly.
Uses a 2 qt buttered dish. Later addition in the margin, different ink: "At end I added 3/4 can of chicken soup (undiluted) to thicken sauce. Also I used more crackers."
digitized from BakedChicken.pdf