LDOH - Have a good time making your retrofitted "City Chicken" with real chicken. Hope it tastes lovely. If you have enough people for dinner, maybe make and serve both versions side by side. I grew up eating and loving Welsh rarebit, the cheese version, and only much later discovered the name had originally been Welsh Rabbit, to suggest a meat component most people couldn't afford. Similar to your Depression-era "City Chicken."
Is this the recipe? https://food52.com/recipes/15453-city-chicken It calls for cubes of pork and veal, so if you want to substitute chicken, it would probably be best to cut boneless chicken breasts or thighs into cubes.
TY, it was very good, added an egg and some breadcrumbs, garlic powder, s&p, then rolled in butter and parm breadcrumbs, fried on all sides and put in oven with foil and light roux
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Have a good time making your retrofitted "City Chicken" with real chicken. Hope it tastes lovely.
If you have enough people for dinner, maybe make and serve both versions side by side.
I grew up eating and loving Welsh rarebit, the cheese version, and only much later discovered the name had originally been Welsh Rabbit, to suggest a meat component most people couldn't afford.
Similar to your Depression-era "City Chicken."
The Food52 recipe from InPatsKitchen is very close to my Fannie Farmer version.