June 27, 2012
Chicken Mousse, aka “Chicken Ice Cream” – The Mid-Century Menu Glistening and Jiggly Finalist #4This is it! The last of the four “Worst” recipes from the Gelatin Contest submission. It’s been pretty terrible so far, but I have to admit we saved the strangest one for last!
This is Chicken Mousse. It’s pretty much just chicken ice cream.
Which is messed up.
Michele writes:
Hi Ruth,
Here is my entry for the gelatin contest. It came from a book we have that I believe is from the 1950′s. The title is “Secrets of Making Frozen Desserts”. All the recipes in the cookbook require an “ice cream freezer” (ice cream maker). So when it says “freeze”, they mean in an ice cream maker, not just in the freezer. So here goes…
Best of luck and let me know how it tastes if you are brave enough to try it!
Michele D.
Wow. You know, I have to say that I have never ever ever come across a recipe like this before. Never.
Probably because this is a really bad idea.
2 cups chicken, chopped fine
1 cup chicken stock
2 cups heavy cream
1 tablespoon powdered gelatine
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon cold water
Chop chicken to almost a paste and press it through a sieve. Season with salt, peppers, and nutmeg. Heat chicken stock and add gelatine which has been softened in the cold water, mix with chicken. Whip cream and add. Freeze.
Also, why did this come from a cookbook about desserts?
Does the book have an appetizer section? Please tell me it does, Michele. Please tell me it does.
At least it turned out sort of…okay looking. It was very icy, so I had to dip my ice cream scoop into hot water quite a bit to make it look half-way presentable. You can see in the picture the huge cracks in the scoops.
Getting himself psyched up.
“Okay, I think I am ready for this.”
Tom’s tasting notes:
Chicken-tastic. Disgusting texture, almost like frozen foam.
My tasting notes:
Tasted like very cold, very ground roast chicken. Good flavor, but completely wrong texture when frozen.
At this point, we both pretty much broke out into giggles because, well, we were eating chicken ice cream! And at this point the cats started kicking up a fuss because they smelled chicken and we were eating something. So, we decided to give them a taste.
For your viewing pleasure: Zoe tasting the ice cream!
Zoe’s tasting notes:
Feh.
Whew!!! Thanks for the awesome submission, Michele! Congrats on being the last of the “Worst” finalists!
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Kate
June 27, 2012 at 9:28 am
You guys are so brave to eat that!!!
Love the tasting notes from your cat.
RetroRuth
June 27, 2012 at 9:47 am
Thanks, Kate! And the highlight really was trying to get the cat to eat it.
MDeSutter
June 27, 2012 at 9:30 am
Ruth,
Hurray for chicken ice cream! We thought it sounded crazy and yucky! We had a hard time deciding between this recipe and one that was very similar but with tuna (frozen also). Maybe Zoe would have liked that better. My husband and I laughed till we cried reading your captions and looking at your pictures of our submission! Especially the faces that Tom made! Sorry Tom. This contest was a great idea and a blast to participate in!
RetroRuth
June 27, 2012 at 9:49 am
Oh my god! Thank goodness it wasn’t the tuna one! That would have been even WORSE! Glad you liked the pics and the contest. I have to say, it was a blast testing your recipe!
Toni
June 27, 2012 at 12:39 pm
That has to be the worst.
Roxy
June 27, 2012 at 4:47 pm
What type of occasion would chicken ice cream had been appropriate?!?!
Sara In AZ
June 27, 2012 at 4:52 pm
OMG!!! Chicken slurry made into ice cream!!!! This HAS to be the MOST hideous thing you have ever made….well ok, nothing is more hideous than the cow tongue, but still!
Terry
June 27, 2012 at 7:07 pm
This recipe – OK, minus the whole icky looking freezing bit – is KINDA like a very nice, actually, white chicken paté recipe I came across while I was living in the East Bay in the 80′s. Of course, I have long since lost that recipe; but it involved running chicken breast meat and cream and herbs (no gelatine) through a food processor, then packing the whole mess into a saran-lined crock, covering and ‘waving to cook though, and THEN (really, it is taking longer to describe it all than it did to make it) popping it in the fridge to chill.
Worked a treat, and tasted pretty darned nifty with wine and crackers. I may try to make it again, based on your recipe. But still without, I think, the gelatine.
And that whole ice cream freezer bit…