Roast Chicken
From Standard Paper-Bag Cookery, 1912
Presented as published in 1912. 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 Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Roast Chicken.— Cover the breast of the fowl OP chicken with butter, drippings, or any refined vegetable oil or tie a piece of fat bacon over it. Place in a bag and set on broiler in a hot oven. Allow twenty-five minutes for a small Spring chicken, thirty-five minutes for a large fowl, forty-five to fifty minutes (according to size) for stuffed poultry in a moderate oven. Saute of Chicken With Mushrooms. — Cut a young, tender chicken into joints, trim off all projecting bones, season with salt and pepper — not too highly — and brush over with melted butter. Put into a well-buttered wooden cook dish, with eight or twelve small mushrooms, cut in slices. Add a pinch of herbs, a very small onion, and a half gill of good white stock. Seal bag tight, give ten minutes in a very hot oven, then thirty in moderate heat. Take up on a hot dish and keep hot, while you make the gravy. Take for the gravy the hot liquor from the bag, put it in a bowl with the yolk of an egg beaten up in half a gill of cream. Stir hard over hot water, but do STANDARD PAPER BAG COOKERY 51 not let boil. When thoroughly blended, pour over the chicken
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