Clam And Chicken Pie – We Love God!

God wants us to follow a recurring pattern of intense work and then rest, intense work and then rest, and so forth. Whatever view one takes of the Sabbath, surely the six days of work and the one day of rest embedded in the creation remain relevant in some sense. Any routine of life that is unsustainable long-term cannot be of God. He calls us to work. But he also calls us to rest, in order to work most fruitfully. What sets us apart is this. We rest, in order to work; we do not work, in order to rest. We who believe the gospel are not living for the weekend, but for The End. In the meantime, we figure out rhythms of life that make fruitful labor sustainable.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy, Eggs	American	Poultry	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Whole chicken, 3 to 3-1/2
		lbs
1/2	c	"Chicken Soup Stock", see
		recipe or chicken broth
1/2	c	Cream, half-and-half or milk
2	T	Each butter & flour, cooked
		to form a roux
1	t	Salt
1	ds	Cayenne pepper
2		6.5-oz diced clams
		drained
2		Hard boiled eggs, sliced
1		Batch "Basic Easy Crust"
		see recipe

INSTRUCTIONS

Old cookbooks offer strange combinations. At least they seem strange
in terms of today's eating habits. This dish was not considered
particularly off the normal track in earlier days. I have tried it  and
find it to be delicious. There is nothing wrong with mixing  seafood
with chicken. And besides, I need no excuse for putting clams  in
anything.  Cook the chicken according to the recipe for Chicken Pie
with Biscuit  Topping. Remove skin and debone the chicken. Make your
own broth if  you wish.  Heat the cream or milk along with the chicken
stock. Thicken with the  roux as in the Chicken and Biscuit Topping
recipe. Add the salt,  cayenne, and celery, and bring to a simmer. Add
the chicken and  drained clams. Place in a baking dish just large
enough to hold  everything and top with the sliced eggs. Roll out the
crust and cover  the pie. Bake at 375Ã¸ for 45 minutes, or until the
crust is golden  brown and flaky.  Serve along with Cabbage and Salt
Pork (see recipe), and you will  have a typical Colonial meal.  From
<The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American>.  Downloaded from Glen's MM  Recipe
Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 179 Calories From Fat: 93 Total Fat: 10.2g Cholesterol: 106.1mg Sodium: 2420mg Potassium: 574.6mg Carbohydrates: 6.7g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 3.6g Protein: 14.7g

There is nothing - no circumstance, no trouble, no testing - that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause my to fret - for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is! That is the rest of victory!

Alan Redpath