My Grandmother'S Chicken Croquettes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 qt. chopped, cooked chicken
salt
black pepper
red pepper to taste
1 qt. milk
1/2 onion, sliced very thin
rind of 1 lemon
3 eggs
1 Tbsp. parsley, chopped
1/4 whole nutmeg, grated
1/2 lb. butter
1 Tbsp. (rounded) cornstarch
3 Tbsp. flour
3 Tbsp. milk
bread crumbs

Preparation

Put the onion and lemon rind into 1 quart of milk; let it come almost to a boil.
Break into a bowl the eggs, minus the yolk of one.
Add parsley, nutmeg and red pepper.
Into a large saucepan, but butter, cornstarch and flour; cream these.
As soon as milk comes nearly to a boil, remove onion and lemon rind.
Pour over creamed butter and flour, stirring all the time.
Add eggs, parsley and seasoning; when thickened, add the meat.
Taste for seasoning; pour on flat dish to cool.
Mold into croquettes, using large, pointed wine glass.
Dip into yolk of egg which was put aside.
Mix with 3 tablespoons of milk; roll in bread crumbs.
Fry in deep hot lard.
Serves 10.