5/31 Next put in it some butter, salt and pepper, a little paprika, and into full of sweet corn, then close the chicken. Next put it in a saucepan with other more sweet corn, against butter, salt, pepper, a little whisky; cook about half of one hour. Squeeze two yolks of eggs and butter like for a sauce mousseline and finish it with a little whisky. We had been on _safari_ for several weeks and had returned to Nairobi for two or three days. It was the "psychological moment" for something new in the way of food. |