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Polio alla Fiorentina #132 (with vegetables)
Originated from: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Occasion: Any time
Contributed by: Taken from "The Cook's Decameron" by W.G. Waters (William Heineman, 1920)

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Ingredients

A fowl
All kinds of vegetables
A few peppercorns
Two quarts of good stock
Well-boiled rice or macaroni

For sauce
Two pounds tomatoes
One big cup of good stock
A quarter pound of chopped ham
Three bay leaves
One onion stuck with cloves
One teaspoonful of Liebig





Directions

"Roll up a fowl in buttered paper and put it in the oven

in a fireproof dish with all kinds of vegetables and a few

peppercorns. Leave it there for about two hours, then put

the fowl and vegetables into two quarts of good stock and let it simmer for one hour; serve on well-boiled rice or

macaroni and pour the following sauce over it. Sauce : ?

Two pounds tomatoes, one big cup of good stock, a quarter pound of chopped ham, three bay leaves, one onion stuck with cloves, one teaspoonful of Liebig. Simmer an hour and a half."








Notes

This recipe (#132) was first published in "The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes," written by Mrs. W.G. Waters and published by William Heineman (1920). For the entire copyright-free cookbook see www.archive.org. A variety of recipes from this cookbook can also be found on this website.... Photo: Mary Melfi.

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