Chicken Blackberry Vinegar

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Ingredients:

BLACKBERRY VINEGAR

1/2 cup blackberries
1 cup vinegar, white

CHICKEN

2 each chickens, halved
6 oz vinegar, blackberry
12 oz demi-glace **
6 oz butter

DEMIGLACE

5 lb bones, beef
5 lb bones, chicken
1/2 bunch celery
1 medium carrot
2 medium onions
1 each bay leaf
4 each garlic, cloves
1 pinch thyme
1 cup puree, tomato

Instructions:

Blackberry Vinegar: ===================

Soak the blackberries in the vinegar for 3 hours, then pass the
mixture through a food mill. Discard the seeds.

Chicken: ========

Saute the chicken and then remove it from the pan.

Drain off the fat and deglaze the pan with blackberry vinegar.

Add the chicken and demi-glace. Bring to a boil.

Finish with butter. Remove chicken to serving plates and cover
with sauce.

Demi-glace: ===========

Brown the beef bones and put them in a large stockpot. Cover with
water and boil. Keep the bones covered with water for 8 to ten hours.

Strain, reserving the liquid.

Put the beef bones in the pot with the chicken bones, vegetables
and seasonings. Cover with water and cook for 4 to 5 hours.

Strain, reserving the liquid.

Combine both the beef liquid and the chicken liquid together.
Bring to a boil and then add the tomato puree. Cook for 10 minutes,
then strain.

Increase heat and reduce until the liquid will coat a spoon.

Skim the surface of the mixture throughout the reduction.

Any leftover demi-glace can be frozen in an ice cube tray and
used a cube at a time later....

Source: Great Chefs of New Orleans, Tele-record Productions
: Box 71112, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1983
: Chef Roland Huet, Christian's Restaurant, New Orleans

Servings: 4

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Chicken is ideal
for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

“Young children and chickens would ever be eating.” Thomas Tusser, English author (1524-1580). 'Points of Huswifery'