Chicken Almond Casserole - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 lb. stewing chicken
2 celery stalks, cut up
2 carrots, cut up
1 medium onion, sliced
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
8 c. boiling water
2 c. cooked rice
1 (4 oz.) can sliced mushrooms
1/4 c. chopped pimento
1 c. blanched, slivered almonds
4 Tbsp. butter or margarine or chicken fat
2 Tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. marjoram
1/4 tsp. thyme
1/2 c. fine dry bread crumbs

Preparation

Simmer chicken until tender with celery, carrots, onion, salt and pepper in boiling water.
Simmer; do not boil.
Remove chicken from bone in large pieces; save broth.