Mock Terrapin In The Chafing-dish Recipe

Instructions

1. Take the dark meat of a chicken cooked the day previous and half a pound of calf's liver; put together in the chafing- dish, add two cloves of garlic, one small onion sliced, two stalks of celery; cover with boiling water and cook twenty minutes.
2. Take out and cut into dice.
3. Cleanse the chafing-dish and put in a quarter of a pound of butter; while the butter is melting, take the yolks of two hard-cooked eggs, mash to a smooth paste, adding gradually a cup of cream.
4. Add a tablespoon of flour to the butter, mix and add the cream and eggs, stir constantly until it reaches the boiling point, then add meat, a teaspoon of salt, a dash of cayenne and just a suspicion of mace.
5. Serve hot on rounds of buttered toast.