Classic Chicken Pie

Ingredients:

• 5 pound chicken
• onion
• celery
• carrot
• salt & pepper
• 6 cups chicken stock
• 6 tablespoons margarine
• 6 tablespoons flour
• 2 tablespoons Chablis wine
• 3 cups pastry flour
• 1 1/2 cups shortening
• 1 teaspoon salt
• kitchen bouquet
• milk

Instructions:

Boil chicken until tender with onion, celery, carrot, salt and pepper. After cooked, remove chicken and cut into large pieces.

To make the gravy, bring chicken stock to a boil and then thicken with margarine and flour. Continue cooking until thick. Add Chablis wine and season with salt and pepper. Darken the sauce with kitchen bouquet. Pour the gravy over the chicken in a 9x12x2-inch baking dish.

Create a pastry cover made of the pastry flour, shortening and salt by mixing together well and adding enough milk to make a paste and put on top of the chicken.

Bake at 375° until the chicken and gravy are very hot and the pastry is browned.