Categories: Poultry, Vegetables, Canadian 
      Yield: 1 servings 
  
      1    Chicken 5-6 lb boiling              1    Carrot; grated 
      5 lb Potatoes                          1/4 ts Thyme or 
      2    Onions; medium- chopped                  -1 bay leaf 
      1    Celery stalk-diced                       Salt & pepper 
  
  Cut chicken into individual pieces. Place in suacepan. Cover with cold 
  water, bring to a boil. Add onions, celery, carrot, thyme or bay leaf, salt 
  and pepper to taste. Cover and simmer 1 1/2 to 2 hours or till chicken is 
  tender. Peel and grate potatoes over a bowl of cold water. When chicken is 
  cooked squeeze 1 or 2 cups potatowa at a time in a piece of cotton till 
  quite dry. Place in a saucepan. When potatoes are all squeezed dry add as 
  much boiling broth from the chicken as needed to almost cover ptoatoes. 
  Stir till thoroughly mixed. Salt lightly. Simmer over low heat asbout 10 
  minutes. Grease generously a 8" square baking dish. Spread half potatoes in 
  the bottom of the pan. Bone the hot chicken and spread over the potatoes, 
  cover with the half of the potatoes. Mince one small onion very finely, add 
  1/4 tsp pepper and 2 slices fat salt pork cut in very small dice. Bake 1/2 
  hour in 350F oven or till top is golden brown and crisp. Serve hot. 
   
  from the Acadian section of _The Canadiana Cookbook_ by Mme. Jehane Benoit. 
  To quote the author, "R^ape in French means grated, so in either case, 
  r^apure or rappie" indicated that fact. A great deal of French and English 
  is mixed together in the Acadian language") (I had to leave out the French 
  accents.)