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Boiled Fowl or Turkey

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

This method helps achieve a snow-white appearance for the fowl.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a fowl or a turkey, by rubbing the breast over with lemon-juice, or by placing a few thin slices of lemon on the breast, and covering them over with a piece of buttered paper, and wrapping the whole in a cloth

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