Chicken With Dried Beef - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 whole chicken breasts
1 (3 oz.) pkg. dried beef (bought in wafer thin slices)
6 strips lean bacon
1/2 lb. fresh mushrooms or 1 (8 oz.) can sliced mushrooms (optional)
1 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 (10 3/4 oz.) can condensed cream of mushroom soup (undiluted)
2 Tbsp. sherry

Preparation

Bone chicken breasts and cut in half; set aside.
Arrange dried beef in shallow baking pan large enough to hold chicken in 1 layer.
Wrap a strip of bacon around each breast half; arrange over beef.
Saute mushrooms in butter and spread over chicken. Combine soup and sherry and mix until smooth; pour over chicken. Cover baking pan with aluminum foil and bake chicken at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours.
Uncover; increase heat to 350\u00b0 and bake for an additional 20 to 30 minutes, basting several times.
Yield:
3 to 4 servings.