Thread by @mjfrombuffalo

So hey, hi! Planning a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday? #yeoldentimecooking has a great recipe for you, from the 1964 Campbell Soup folks.

At first, I was going to make Mardi Gras Chicken Livers but I wasn't sure I would find them, and second, ew.

So I went with this instead:

Mm mmm good! Ingredients for the 🐔 part:

And the pancakes:

Sifted the dry pancake ingredients in advance with Grandma's sifter

Cooked the celery in butter and added chicken and a SCHWOOMP of Cream O Mushroom soup. It never looks good at first.

Pimento for color:

Note that I had sliced almonds, but not slivered toasted almonds, so I met Campbell's halfway and toasted the sliced almonds.

Put it all together and it's... not all that attractive.

On to the pancakes! Made 'em extra large with a ladle. And note, that really was saved bacon grease. The recipe I usually use calls for butter, so this was new to me.

The pancakes got very brown, very fast. Lower temperature next time. Applied the creamed chicken mixture.

Served Hubby, who still hasn't figured out he's the hidden camera subject of a social media cooking show.
Reader, he liked it very much.

The bacon grease added a salty-smokey-savory note. The chicken topping was like Chicken a la King, and the toasted almonds added crunch. The fact that they were toasted came through in the final taste. DON'T SKIP TOASTING THE ALMONDS.

Verdict: would make again. *fin*

If you missed the last episode of the occasional #yeoldentimecooking series, it's here:

https://twitter.com/mjfrombuffalo/status/1355634932199129101?s=19

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