Roasted Chicken

Ingredients

• Prepare a full-grown chicken or hen
• add 1 pint water
• sprinkle with salt
• salt and pepper
• dressing of bread-crumbs
• butter
• a little onion

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle the chicken with salt and lay on ice for 12 hours.

2. 2

   Put in a pan with water and cook till tender, adding water if needed.

3. 3

   Make dressing of bread-crumbs, butter, salt, pepper, and onion.

4. 4

   Form into cakes and lay around the fowl.

5. 5

   Baste frequently with butter.

6. 6

   Cook giblets in the pan with the chicken.

7. 7

   When tender, remove from the pan and make gravy with giblets, flour, butter, milk.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Blue grass cook book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ROASTED CHICKEN Prepare a full-grown chicken or hen, sprinkle with salt, lay on ice for 12 hours or longer. Put in pan and add 1 pint water, and cook till tender, adding water if needed. Then make a dressing of bread-crumbs, butter, salt and pepper, and a little onion

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