Name: Kid Roasted Whole
Ingredients: 1 whole kid (with head); ghee; coarse sea salt; stuffing (as for fowl)

Kid Roasted Whole

Ingredients

1 whole kid (with head)
ghee
coarse sea salt
stuffing (as for fowl)

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Clean the kid thoroughly.
Prepare stuffing as you would for a fowl and stuff the kid.
Break the joints of the legs and truss them like a pig.

Season and bake

Rub the kid all over with ghee and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until cooked through.

Serve

Serve in a sitting posture with a lime in the mouth.

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

Ghee: Coats the skin, adding fat that helps it brown and stay moist in the oven.
Stuffing: Fills the cavity, adding moisture and flavour as the kid cooks inside.

“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.