Roast Chicken

Ingredients

• Clean and dress chicken.
• add Y2 cup of butter.
• One-fourth cup of water may be added when chicken has been in the oven Vz hour.

Method

1. 1

   Dust chicken with flour, pepper and salt; add butter.

2. 2

   The chicken may be covered at this time, although it will be quite satisfactory in the open pan.

3. 3

   Baste chicken thoroughly before dishing.

4. 4

   To make the gravy, remove chicken, skim off the fat and add 2.5 tablespoons of flour to liquid in pan and blend carefully.

5. 5

   Then add water in which the giblets have been cooked.

6. 6

   Stir until boiling; cook 5 minutes.

7. 7

   The average takes from one to two hours to roast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Chapel Hill cook book (1935) by Presbyterian Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ROAST CHICKEN Clean and dress chicken. Dust chicken with flour, pepper and salt; add Y2 cup of butter.

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