Chicken Westmoreland - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (3 oz.) jar or pkg. dried sliced beef, snipped with scissors into postage stamp size pieces
8 chicken breasts, boned
8 strips bacon
1 (10 3/4 oz.) can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 pt. dairy sour cream
toothpicks

Preparation

Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking dish; cover the bottom with the pieces of dried beef.
Wrap each chicken breast with a bacon strip and secure it with a toothpick; arrange wrapped breasts on the dried beef.
Mix mushroom soup thoroughly with sour cream; spoon over the chicken. (Note: Omit salt and pepper, the dried beef and soup provide plenty.)
The recipe can be made a day ahead to this point and kept covered in the refrigerator.
Bake, uncovered, in a 275\u00b0 oven for 3 hours.
Yields 4 to 8 servings.