Name: Eden Isle Chicken
Ingredients: 3 -(up to); 4 Chicken breasts; halved, boned; 1 Jar (2.5-oz) dried beef (up to); 8 sl Bacon; 1 cn (10.75-oz) cream of mushroom soup; 1 cn (4-oz) mushrooms; 1 pt Sour cream; 1 pk (3-oz) cream cheese; softened

Nativity scenes and Christmas cards make the birthing place of Jesus like something out of a “Tennessee Made-for-Television Christmas Special” with Garth Brooks sitting on a bale of hay strumming some of our Holiday favorites in a clean barn with domesticated animals and seats for the children to drink their hot chocolate. Clearly this was not the case for Joseph and Mary. The conditions were crude. We can assume animals were present, but the text never confirms it. Animals probably were at some time housed there since Jesus was placed in a manger, which is a feeding trough for animals. The whole place smelled not only from animal droppings, but also from poverty, scandal, insignificance, helplessness, humiliation and embarrassment.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy		Poultry	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		-(up to)
4		Chicken breasts; halved, boned
1		Jar (2.5-oz) dried beef (up to)
8	sl	Bacon
1	cn	(10.75-oz) cream of mushroom soup
1	cn	(4-oz) mushrooms
1	pt	Sour cream
1	pk	(3-oz) cream cheese; softened

INSTRUCTIONS

Place beef in large buttered casserole. Wrap a slice of bacon around each
breast. Place in casserole. Mix soup, sour cream, cheese and mushrooms
thoroughly. Pour over chicken. Cover and bake at 325 for 2-1/2 hours. Take
off cover the last 30 minutes. Serve over rice.
MRS GENE HOSEY (KAREN)
CUTOFF, LA
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR  72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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