POULET GRANDMERE

      Title: POULET GRANDMERE
  Categories: Chicken, Poultry
       Yield: 4 Servings
  
  
   2-1/2 - 3 lb. chicken
         1    garlic clove peeled
         2 T  rendered bacon fat salt and pepper to taste
       1/4 c  water 1/4 lb. fat salt pork, diced, blanched for 5 min.and
   drained.
   
       1/4    lb. fresh mushrooms 12 (0r more) small boiling onions
   peeled sugar
         2 T  butter (unsalted) 2 - Medium sized potatoes, diced Chopped
   fresh parsley
   
   Place the garlic in the chicken cavity and truss the bird as for
   roasting. Place it in a casserole with the bacon grease/lard. Add a
   little salt. Put it in a pre-heated 400-425 oven and cook uncovered
   until it is well browned all over, turning the bird occasionally and
   baste it with the fat. Pour off the fat and reserve.  Add 2-3T of
   water and stir in all of the brown crust from the sides of the
   casserole. Set the chicken aside in the casserole. In a skillet
   saute'  the salt pork in the fat removed from the casserole. When
   golden brown  remove the pork and set it aside. Cook the mushrooms in
   the fat left in the skillet. season with salt and pepper and set this
   too aside. Put the onions in another skillet with 2 T of the water,
   and a sprinkling of sugar and 1/2T butter. Cook slowly until water
   cooks away and the onions have taken on a good brown color. Reserve.
   Add the salt pork, mushrooms, and onions to the chicken, and , if the
   gravy has reduced, a little more water. Cover the casserole, reduce
   the oven heat to 350 and cook 30 minutes longer  or until chicken is
   done, basting often. Cook the potatoes in the remaining butter until
   brown and tender and put them on top of the vegetables in the
   casserole.  Sprinkle chopped parsley over all. Recipe directs that
   all be served from the casserole but as you'll remember, you have to
   cut it into serving pieces first. Other vegetables like asparagus and
   or peas can be added if desired. Louis Diat French Cooking For
   American Cooks
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