Roast Chicken
From Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide, 1880
Serves 6
Basting with butter and flour paste keeps the chicken juicy.
Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Roast Chicken. Clean the chicken, and stuff the breast and part of the body with dressing made as follows : For a pair of chickens weighing between seven and eight pounds, take one quart of stale bread (being sure not to have any hard pieces), and break up in very fine crumbs. Add a table-spoonful of salt, a scant teaspoonful of pepper, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, half a teaspoonful of powdered sage, one of summer savory and a scant half cupful of butter
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