To roast young Chickens

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time: Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (3)

young Chickens ↝ Chicken, ground, raw [Poultry Products]
butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]

Instructions (3)

When you roast young chickens, pluck them very carefully, draw them, only cut off the claws, truss them, and put them down to a good fire, singe, dust, and baste them with butter
They will take a quarter of an hour roasting
Then froth them up, lay them on your dish, pour butter and parsley in the dish, and serve them up hot

Original Text

To roast young Chickens.
WHEN you roast young chickens, pluck them very carefully, draw them, only cut off the claws, truss them, and put them down to a good fire, singe, dust, and baste them with butter; they will take a quarter of an hour roasting, then froth them up, lay them on your dish, pour butter and parsley in the dish, and serve them up hot.

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