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Boiled Capon with Rock-Salt

From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890

Serves 4

Serve with good gravy.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Capon with. Rock-salt.— Take a fat and tender young Capon, draw, singe, and truss it, putting a piece of butter in its inside, and rub it well all over with lemon. Next take a stewpan with sufficient water to cover the Capon, and add a handful of rock-salt and a bunch of parsley

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