Chicken Chaud-froid Recipe

Ingredients

• Boneless chicken breasts - 6
• Onion - 1 large
• Thyme - 1 sprig
• Bay leaf - 1
• Salt and black pepper
• Carrot - 1 small
• Parsley stalks - 6
• Peppercorns - 6
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Milk - 300 ml (= pint)
• Butter - 25g (1 oz)
• Plain flour - 25g (1 oz)
• Powdered gelatine - 2 tsp
• Aspic jelly - 300 ml (= pint), hot
• Cucumber peel - 2.5 cm (1 inch) piece, to garnish
• Tomato - 1 large, pared peel to garnish
• Lemon - 1 small, pared rind to garnish
• Dill sprigs - to garnish