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From the Experimental Kitchen: Poule au Wrong Pot
I have a whole chicken, and I have a bunch of veg that needs to be used up, so I decided to make the Poule au Pot recipe out of Lobscouse & Spotted Dog. Unlike most of the recipes therein, it neither starts with "take ye a pound of lard", nor requires six hours of fuckin' around, so why not?
I did not have everything I need--no leeks, only the tail-end of a package of mushrooms, and my rosemary plant has been denuded--but these are not necessarily canonical. A bigger lack is bacon, but I happen to know that most historical recipes call for larding with bacon because meats of the era were far leaner & tougher, so that was not a big concern either; and instead of browning the veggies in bacon fat, I rendered some fat from the chicken itself and used it.
However, what I learned is that my cast iron Dutch oven is not quite big enough to fit a seven pound chicken and all the vegetables. I currently have a heavy thingie on the lid to keep it moderately secure, since the recipe is a sort of steaming-cooking type of idea, but I think that it may work not-quite-right to have the pot so very full.
Of course, most of the house is still in some degree of gastric distress, so I wonder if anyone except me is even going to want Real Food; so it may not signify at all.
I did not have everything I need--no leeks, only the tail-end of a package of mushrooms, and my rosemary plant has been denuded--but these are not necessarily canonical. A bigger lack is bacon, but I happen to know that most historical recipes call for larding with bacon because meats of the era were far leaner & tougher, so that was not a big concern either; and instead of browning the veggies in bacon fat, I rendered some fat from the chicken itself and used it.
However, what I learned is that my cast iron Dutch oven is not quite big enough to fit a seven pound chicken and all the vegetables. I currently have a heavy thingie on the lid to keep it moderately secure, since the recipe is a sort of steaming-cooking type of idea, but I think that it may work not-quite-right to have the pot so very full.
Of course, most of the house is still in some degree of gastric distress, so I wonder if anyone except me is even going to want Real Food; so it may not signify at all.
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Hope it turns out OK. It sounds like something that could appeal to folks getting over gastric distress.
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