Chicken Cambacérès

Chicken Cambacérès (COM-bas-R-ess)

This chicken delicacy is named for the famous LGBT hero of France: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duc de Parme. That's a mouthful and so is this chicken! Learn about this great man in a short essay after the recipe.

Slave understands that the instructions look difficult but if you read them first, the task is really easy. Most of it is to make sure the breading stays on the meat! This is a variation of Chicken Kiev. It is so juicy and full of flavor. Plus once you learn how to bread the meat you can use it for all kinds of other dishes. Fried chicken, Fish, Pork, even vegetables! 

 

 

Ingredients:

3 chicken breasts (boneless-skinless)

3 Tbs real butter

3 Tbs grated Gruyere cheese

1 Tbs fresh parsley, chopped

½ tsp garlic powder.

Directions: 

 

 To grate the cheese always spray the grater first.

 

 Chop the parsley:

In a medium bowl or mixer, Mix together butter, parsley, garlic, and grated cheese, and season generously with salt and pepper.

                          

Roll butter into a ½ inch thick log, then wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in freezer for an hour.

Take the chicken pieces out of the package and pat dry with paper towels.

Roll in cornstarch. 

 

 

With a knife, poke a hole down into the meat, not all the way through but wide enough for the butter stick.

Place in refrigerator uncovered to dry for 15 to 20 minutes. (a dry surface will help the coating adhere evenly to the chicken.)

NOTE: this is a good time to fix the vegetables.

 

 Cut a piece of the frozen butter/cheese log and place inside the pocket of each piece and shove it in completely, the frozen butter should hold it.

Sprinkle lightly with more corn starch, Let sit while you prepare batter.

Batter:

½ cup sparkling water, cold

1 egg (yolk and white separated)

1 cup flour

½ cup cornstarch

Directions:

To make the batter: Mix ½ cup cold sparkling water. An egg yolk, 1 cup flour and a half cup of cornstarch. Blend. Beat the egg white and when thick, fold into the mixture. Never add salt to the batter.

Dip the chicken in this and place on a plate to sit. It should seal up the slit. Again, chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. This will help the batter to solidify, and adhere better when the chicken is cooked.

 

 

Heat the oil or fat until hot before adding the chicken. Gently lay the breaded meat in your pan. Be sure not to overcrowd.

Use your probe thermometer to keep track of the temperatures of the meat and oil. Don’t try to turn the chicken! When the bottom is the shade of golden you want, gently loosen the pieces with a wide spatula and transfer them to a plate. Heat more oil or fat in the pan until hot and return the chicken pieces, uncooked side down; cook over medium heat without turning until brown on the other side and fully cooked inside. Internal temps should reach 150 F for at least 3 minutes.

Drain them on a wire rack turned upside down on paper towels.

Bring it to the table as soon as it is done. Battered fried food must be done in real time: the closer you get to eating it, the better. This is because the cover given by the batter and the humidity of the food quickly remove the crunchiness. In short, it is never good to preserve the delicacies fried in batter: better to make a sacrifice and eat them immediately!

So you want to make sure your vegetables are done before frying! They will stay warm, the chicken wont keep!

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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès

Cambacérès was a famous French lawyer and statesman during the time of the French Revolution. He is best known as one of the authors of the Napoleonic Code, which still forms the basis of French civil law and that of much of the Western world.

Cambacérès has been credited with the decriminalization of homosexuality in France. Many historians argue that point. Consider: Cambacérès was open about his attraction to men. He remained unmarried and is noted as having been surrounded by unmarried young men. To have been able to hold important positions in government at the time was in itself a “revolutionary” act and an important contribution to society.

Cambacérès was born in 1753 in Montpellier, France. In 1774, he graduated in law from the college d’Aix and succeeded his father as Councillor in the court of accounts and finances in Toulouse.

He was a major supporter of the French Revolution of 1789.

In 1792, he represented the department of Hérault at the National Convention which proclaimed the First French Republic in September of that year.

In revolutionary terms, Cambacérès was a moderate. His legal expertise made him useful to all parties.

As a member of the Committee of General Defence from 1793, Cambacérès worked on much of the legislation of the revolutionary period.

During 1795, he was employed as a diplomat and negotiated peace with Spain, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Batavian Republic.

Cambacérès had been appointed as Minister of Justice by 1799.

He supported the coup that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul, forming a new regime designed to establish a stable constitutional republic.

In 1802 he rendered substantial help in establishing the life consulate for Bonaparte. He was made archchancellor of the empire in 1804 and was created Duke of Parma in 1808. Presiding over the Senate and, as a rule, over the Council of State, he exercised extended powers during Napoleon’s absences.

Cambacérès was appointed Second Consul. He was effectively second-in-command of France during the Napoleonic era.

Cambacérès was charged with the drawing up of a new Civil Law Code – later called the Napoleonic Code, recognized as France’s first modern legal code. It came into effect in 1804.

Napolean’s conquests of Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, western Germany, and Spain meant that the legal code created by Cambacérès shaped the legal framework of much of Europe and Latin America.

As to decriminalization of homosexuality: Prior to the Revolution, sodomy had been a capital crime under royal legislation. The penalty was burning at the stake. Executions rarely happened, men caught having sex with other men were usually cautioned or imprisoned.

The National Assembly of 1791 removed a range of criminal offenses that were religion-based, such as blasphemy. While sodomy wasn’t specifically mentioned in this context, it fell under the umbrella of religious crimes and so was effectively removed by the National Assembly at that time.

The Penal Code of France was updated in 1810. This would have been an opportunity to reinstate the decriminalization of sodomy and homosexuality if that was an issue. There is no evidence that any consideration was given to this.

Public decency offenses were used to police public sexual encounters between men.

The fact that Cambacérès was homosexual was a well known one and it appears he did not at all attempt to conceal his sexual orientation. Indeed, Napoleon is recorded as frequently joking on the matter with him and it had no bearing on the high offices he held. Homosexuality had been decriminalized under the Revolution and Napoleon elected to keep it that way and so compared to other countries Revolutionary and Napoleonic France was a  period of relative freedom for gay people.

Excluded from public life at the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, Cambacérès reluctantly returned to it in the Hundred Days, at Napoleon’s bidding, when he directed the Ministry of Justice and presided over the Chamber of Peers.

Exiled at the Second Restoration, he lived in Belgium until 1818, when he was allowed to return to France, with his restored. He lived quietly until his death in 1824. He was buried with full honors in Pere Lachaise cemetery.