Name: Distilled Chicken
Ingredients: 1 good chicken; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Distilled Chicken

Ingredients

1 good chicken
coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Directions

Cut the chicken into pieces and place them in a wide-mouthed glass jar or bottle.
Cover the jar with a bladder, pricking holes in it.
Sprinkle a small quantity of coarse sea salt over the chicken.
Place the jar on a warm hearth.
As the liquid distills from the meat, pour it off.

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.