Tasty, warm and filling Chicken Cordon Blue recipe. Serve with baked new potatoes or fries and a crisp salad.

Ingredients: 

2 whole chicken breasts
Salt and pepper to taste
4 slices Swiss cheese
4 slices cooked ham, 1/8 inch thick
6 tbsp. flour
2 eggs, beaten
1 tbsp. water
6 tbsp. fine dry bread crumbs
4 tbsp. butter
10 whole mushrooms
1/4 c. dry sherry

Directions: 

1. Remove skin from chicken breasts and discard. Between two pieces of wax paper, flatten breasts with a wooden mallet until quite thin.

2. Cut each breast into two pieces crosswise. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

3. Lay a slice of cheese and a slice of ham on each piece of breast and roll.

4. Mix eggs with water and dip chicken in egg, then in flour, then in egg again and finally in crumbs.

5. Melt butter in a flat baking dish with mushrooms and sherry and bake at 350 degrees covered for 35 minutes.

6. Uncover and bake an additional 25 minutes.