Plucked and Drawn Fowls

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (12)
seasoning
for filling
for baking
for finishing
Instructions (13)
  1. Pluck and draw the fowls.
  2. Season them with pepper, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg (well beaten and sifted), and salt (not to overcome the spices).
  3. Roll a lump of butter in the seasoning and put it into the body of the fowls.
  4. Rub the outside with seasoning.
  5. Put the fowls into pots with the breast downwards.
  6. Cover them with butter.
  7. Lay a paper, and then a paste over them.
  8. Bake them till they are tender.
  9. Take them out and lay them to drain.
  10. Put them into potting-pots with the breast upward.
  11. Take all the butter they were baked in clean from the gravy, and pour upon them.
  12. Fill up the pots with clarified butter.
  13. Keep them in a dry place.
Original Text
PLUCK and draw them, and season them with pepper, cloves, mace, ginger, and nutmeg, well beaten and sifted, with a quantity of salt not to overcome the spices, roll a lump of butter in the seasoning, and put it into the body of the fowls, rub the outside with seasoning, and then put them into pots with the breast downwards, and cover them with butter, lay a paper, and then a paste over them, and bake them till they are tender, then take them out, and lay them to drain, then put them into potting-pots with the breast upward, and take all the butter they were baked in clean from the gravy, and pour upon them; fill up the pots with clarified butter, and keep them in a dry place.
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