Chicken à la Girenflot

Ingredients

• the bird
• some butter
• some bacon
• some shallot
• one or two good slices of toast

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the bird for roasting; when on the spit baste it constantly with butter, into which you have mixed bacon and shallot, both chopped fine.

2. 2

   When the chicken is of a fine golden colour, put one or two good slices of toast into the dripping-pan.

3. 3

   Dish the bird on the toast, and serve with all the savoury contents of the dripping-pan.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.