To Roast Poultry

Ingredients

• Rub all over with soft butter
• and sprinkle with salt and pepper
• Make basting-mixture with 1/2 cup each of butter or chicken-fat and water

Method

1. 1

   Place on rack in roasting-pan and put in very hot oven.

2. 2

   Keep hot and baste every 10 or 15 minutes.

3. 3

   Roast 3 hours for 8.5 pound turkey, 1 to 1.5 hours for fowls.

4. 4

   Keep oven very hot.

5. 5

   If fowl is very large and heavy, cover breast and legs with several thicknesses paper to keep from burning.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

T© Roast Poultry. — Rub all over with soft butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place on rack in roasting-pan and put in very hot oven. Make basting-mixture with % cup each of butter or chicken-fat and water

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