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Coffee (Planked Chicken-Cream together)

*Planked Chicken-Cream together 1/4 cup Crisco, 1 teaspoon minced onion, 14 tablespoon each of minced red pepper, green pepper, and parsley, 1½ clove minced garlic, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. oven.

Split 1 young chicken as for broiling, place in pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot over with Crisco, and bake until nearly done in a quick Then Crisco plank, arrange upon it border made from 2 cups of hot mashed potatoes to which have been added seasoning and beaten yolks of 3 eggs. This is put on with a pastry tube and may be made as fanciful as desired, with rosettes and pyramids. Brush over with beaten egg diluted slightly with water, and place chicken in center. Peel and saute 8 large mushroom caps, place on chicken (which has been spread with prepared butter), place in very hot oven to brown potatoes and finish cooking chicken. Serve on plank at once.

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