saving$$ on family food

RUBBER CHICKEN
1 old boiling fowl
water, salt to taste
6 bay leaves
3 eggs
whole wheat flour or
brown rice flour
mixed veggies of your choice
butter and milk
loaf of whole wheat bread or
gluten free bread

First Day: Put the tough old bird in a pot, cover with water and boil
until tender. This might take all day
add bay leaves about half way thro'
add salt and choice of spices at end.
Put it in cool place so fat can be skimmed off.
about an hour before supper
Beat the three eggs and 1/2 tsp salt
Keep adding flour to make a stiff dough
Have a pot of water, salted and boiling
1.Drop dough into boiling water a tsp at a time.
Boil until they float, or are cooked inside
Drain and put in big soup bowl adding a
little oil or butter to keep from sticking together
Skim the fat off the cooling chicken and pour broth
over the Kleesel. (boiled whole grain flour balls)
Serve with a hearty salad.
Second Day:
Boil lightly your choice of mixed veggies and add
any jellied chicken broth and any kleezel left
from day before. Serve with whole grain crackers
Third day:
Strip all the meat off the chicken and cut into small chunks
Make a cream sauce by putting 3 or 4 tbsp of butter into pan
melt butter and then add flour until no more will mix
Browning slightly. Do not burn. Very slowly add milk
Mixing carefully to avoid lumps. Cook until you have
the consistency you desire for a sauce for the chicken.
Add chopped chicken. Pour this chicken sauce over
slices of buttered toast, brown rice or noodles.

Our children named these meals "RUBBER CHICKEN" 'cuz
it stretched so far. Our youngest son even figured it always lasted
a whole week? Sure did stretch the food budget though.
You can see that this recipe can be adapted to your own tastes and
size of family by using more eggs for the Kleezel, and more veggies etc
Jonibee

Hey folks, I just thought of a great idea. This recipe was a regular at least every two week staple as I was raising our six children on a shoestring. I had lots of trouble with arthritis and other spinal conditions from three different and separate car accidents so life was sometimes a big challenge. Now, many years later, a divorce, a remarriage 6 years later and discoveries of some of the causes of some of my health problems, one, namely, a gluten sensitivity, I have never had to use my rubber chicken recipe any more but often give it to friends with large families, and it has appeared in a church fund raiser cook book. Yeah!
Last year my present husband, of almost 25 years, and I became vegetarians. He also is gluten sensitive because of celiac. Now neither of us eat wheat except in the form of wheat grass juice.
An added bonus of being vegetarian and not even eating eggs, is that my arthritis has almost all disappeared. That is a very big plus. Of course the rubber chicken recipe would not work for us, but we could try it with soy chunks and either bean thread or brown rice noodles instead of Kleesel, and of course, no tough old bird!
when I perfect that recipe in my kitchen, I will share that also. If anyone wants to email me with questions and as many answers as I might have gleaned in my 76 years I would welcome your input - click here to email