Roast Game

Ingredients

• a piece of butter
• some toast
• black ground pepper

Method

1. 1

   Prepare and truss as a fowl; do not wash the bird, but wipe it dry.

2. 2

   Put black ground pepper and a piece of butter inside the bird, and hang before a brisk fire, basting it well with butter.

3. 3

   Shortly before it is done, put some toast below the bird, and let the butter drop upon it.

4. 4

   Serve with breadcrumbs, and bread sauce if liked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roast Game. Prepare and truss as a fowl ; do not wash the bird, but wipe it dry. Put black ground pepper and a piece of butter inside the bird, and hang before a brisk fire, basting it well with butter. Shortly before it is done, which will be from a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes, put some toast

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