Magnolia Tea Room Chicken Salad - Aunt Cindra

The Magnolia Tea Room is a really cute resturant that is located in an antebellum home in Stone Mountain Village, GA.  The southern ladies love to go have lunch there. You seldom see a gentlman in the place. Eve and I went to lunch there one time when she visited me in Georgia.

3 1/2 pounds chicken breasts, with bone and skin (adds flavor)
6 stalks celery, sliced
1 cups mayonnaise
1/2 cup pickle relish
1 1/2  teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup toasted almonds, sliced

Cook chicken and reserve the chicken stock.

Boil:

Bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts: cook about 30 minutes
Skinless, boneless chicken breast halves: cook 15 to 20 minutes
Skinless, boneless chicken breast cut into 2-inch pieces: cook about 10 minutes
once.

Cool chicken.  Seperate the bone and skin.  Chop into large chunks.  Fold celery, pickle relish and pepper into mayonnaise.  Cover and keep refrigerated until serving.  Garnish with almond slices.