Cold Chicken in Aspic

Place the chicken in a Dutch oven or large heavy pan. Add the water, onion, diced carrot, celery, salt and pepper.

Cover, bring to a boil, and simmer gently until chicken in tender, about one and one-half hours for the fowl and forty-five to sixty minutes for the fryers. Strain the liquid and return it to the pan. Skim off as much surface fat as possib