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Roast Chicken

A whole chicken stuffed, trussed, and roasted for about an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Roast Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare and stuff the chickens as you would a turkey.

  2. Truss the chickens securely.

Roast

  1. Roast in a tin kitchen for 1 hour and 15 minutes or in an oven for 1 hour.

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

Chicken
Forms the main protein of the dish, cooking through as the roast heats.

“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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