Purefoy Chicken Croquettes – Delicious Recipe from 1941

Purefoy Chicken Croquettes

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Recipe from the Purefoy Hotel Cook Book Talladega Alabama 1941

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  • 2 cups chicken – left over, cut fine with scissors
  • 2 eggs – beaten
  • ½ lemon juice
  • 2 cups rich chicken broth or cream of chicken soup
  • 1 onion, small-grated
  • ½ tsp dry mustard
  • 2 tbsp Worchestershire sauce
  • 1½-2 cups grated light bread crumbs (stale bread)
  1. Combine ingredients and mix thoroughly. Put on ice and chill.
  2. When cold shape mixture in medium-size balls. Roll in finely grated bread crumbs and put back on ice for hours.
  3. Fry in a basket with enough shortening to cover well.
  4. Drain on brown paper and serve hot.
  5. Be sure your shortening is piping hot and put 3 or 4 in basket at one time. They fry much better.
Main Course
Chicken, Purefoy

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