Roast Turkey or Chicken

Ingredients

• Having picked and drawn the fowls
• dredge them with a little flour
• a little pepper
• a little salt
• prepare a dressing of bread and cracker crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Wash the fowls well, dredge inside and out with flour, pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Prepare a dressing of bread and cracker crumbs, fill the fowls, and bake for two to three hours, basting frequently.

3. 3

   Stew giblets in a saucepan, chop fine, and add to the gravy before serving.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OAST TURKEY OE CHICKEN. Having picked and drawn the fowls, wash them well in two or three waters ; wipe them dry ; dredge them with a little flour inside and out, and a little pepper and salt ; prepare a dressing of bread and cracker crumbs, fill the bodies and crops of the fowls and then bake them from two to three hours ; baste them frequently while roast- ing; stew the giblets in a sauce pan; just before serving, (88) VALUABLE EECIPES. 89 chop the giblets fine ; after taking up the chicken, and the water in which the giblets were boiled, add the chopped giblets to the gravy of the roast fowl ; thicken with a little flour, which has been previously wet with the water; boil up, and serve in a gravy-dish. Roast chickens and turkey should be accompanied with celery and jellies. BAKED CHICKEN. Anonymous. Cut the fowls open and lay them flat in a pan, break- ing down the breast and the back bones ; dredge with flour and season well with salt and pepper, with bits of butter ; put in a very hot oven until done, basting fre- quently with melted butter ; or when half done take out the chicken and finish by broiling it upon a gridiron over bright coals; pour over it melted butter and the juices in the pan in which it was baked. CHICKEN FRICASSEE. Sarah Page, Albany, No Yo Cut up the chickens and put on the fire in a kettle with cold water sufficient to cover, add a little salt

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