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Koast Turkey or Chicken

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Koast Turkey or Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Having picked and drawn the fowls, wash them well in two or three waters ; wipe them dry ; dredge them with a little flour inside and out, and a little pepper and salt ; prepare a dressing of bread and cracker crumbs, fill the bodies and crops of the fowls and then bake them from two to three hours ; baste them frequently while roast- ing ; stew the giblets in a sauce pan ; just before serving,

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  3. chop the giblets fine ; after taking up the chicken, and the water in which the giblets were boiled, add the chopped giblets to the gravy of the roast fowl ; thicken with a little flour, which has been previously wet with the water; boil up, and serve in a gravy-dish. Roast chickens and turkey should be accompanied with celery and jellies.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). 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. See the original page.

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