The Saturday Sip: March 9, 2024
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
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The Recipe
Chicken Westhampton may look complex, but it brings warm, comforting flavors with a hit of Tabasco to keep things on the spicy side.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 134 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Chicken Westhampton
Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
1 frying chicken
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 tbs. olive oil [more used later]
2 tbs. butter
2 small onions, chopped
2 shallots, chopped
1 cup rice
1 tbs. butter
1 tbs. olive oil
2 large tomatoes, peeled and cut into pieces
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 red pepper, cut in pieces
1/2 green pepper, cut in pieces
1 bay leaf
1 clove
1/4 cup seedless raisins
1 tbs. chopped parsley
6 or 7 drops Tabasco
1 tsp. saffron powder or 1 good pinch dried saffron flowers
Directions
Cut each side of the breast into 2 pieces, separate drumsticks from second joints, remove skin and shake these 8 pieces in a strong paper bag with the flour, salt and pepper. Brown chicken in the oil and butter, add the onions and shallots. Cook till onions are golden, cover, and turn flame very low.
Stir rice into hot oil and butter and cook 5 or 6 minutes, stirring constantly
The chicken will have been simmering 10 minutes by this time; add the rice, tomatoes, stock , peppers, bay leaf, clove, raisins, parsley, Tabasco and saffron. Stir all, cover, and simmer 20 minutes. Serve 1 piece of white and 1 piece of dark meat to each person. Surround the chicken pieces with yellow rice mixed with the red of the tomatoes and the pepper, with the green pieces of the other pepper completing the picture.
NOTE: This makes a delicious one-dish meal for 4. If it is made for 2, put half of it covered in the refrigerator. Three or four days later, reheated over a low flame or in a double boiler, it will be even better than the first day.
The Quote
“Young perceptions invariable prove straight through to every aspect of character with the penetration of X-rays.” - Emily Post
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Lizzie and Dan
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I just listened to your episode regarding whether to point out errors in someone’s writing. You gave me a new perspective… Historically I would be silent. Your advice on how to offer suggestions for corrections well are brilliant! If it’s helpful in this context I did notice one errant letter in the Emily quote: “prove” looks like it might actually be “probe” if I am reading it correctly. They both have a poetic kind of meaning but I am awed, as usual, by Emily’s succinct way of stating truth. Thank you for the Saturday sip- That chicken sounds amazing!