Cooking with fire.
Added 2019-07-15 00:28:57 +0000 UTCAbout to cook chicken fricassee for the family. I spent the evening going down an internet rabbit hole on the history of chicken fricassee. Since you're so interested in this, the answer is that there are records going back to 1300 with the first use of the term in 1490. It is definitively French and origin although now we braise the chicken before we put it in, and back then they stewed the whole thing. Julia child's spoke poetically on this saying that a fricassee was something between a saute and a stew since you first saute the chicken and then you stew it. But history shows that's not how the dish started. In any event it was delicious I use the recipe of delish.com (https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a23105767/easy-chicken-fricassee-recipe/)
I used sage instead of parsley, and half and half instead of cream.
