Roast Chicken
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and dress the chicken as you would a turkey.
Cook the chicken for 45 minutes.
Make gravy using the giblets.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Whole young chicken
- Is the main protein that is roasted and carved for the meal.
- Giblets
- Provide the base flavour for the gravy.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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