Small Chickens

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (10)
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Instructions (7)
  1. Season the chickens with mace, pepper, and salt.
  2. Put a lump of butter into each chicken.
  3. Lay the chickens in the dish, with the breasts up.
  4. Lay a thin slice of bacon over them.
  5. Add a pint of strong gravy to the dish.
  6. Make a good puff paste lid for the dish.
  7. Bake in a moderate oven.
Original Text
LET your chickens be ſmall, ſeaſon them with mace, pepper, and ſalt, put a lump of butter into every one of them, lay them in the diſh, with the breaſts up, and lay a thin ſlice of bacon over them, it will give them a pleaſant flavour, then put in a pint of ſtrong gravy, and make a good puff paſte, lid it, and bake it in a moderate oven : French cooks generally put morels and yolks of eggs chopped ſmall.
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