Maine Chicken Pie

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

  • About

Chicken and gravy under crisp, flaky pastry—a Country Cookbook favorite

Ingredients

Method

  • Place chicken in large kettle and add next six ingredients, using ½ tsp. monosodium glutamate and 1 tsp. salt. Simmer, covered, until tender, 3 to 3½ hours. Save broth.
  • Remove bird to rack. Strip meat from bones, removing in large pieces. Refrigerate when cool.
  • Combine flour, onion salt, celery salt, pepper, 1 tsp. salt and ¼ tsp. monosodium glutamate w