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A Boiled Fowl

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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A Boiled Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the fowl in a large pot and cover with water.

  2. Add salt to taste and bring to a boil.

  3. Reduce heat and simmer until the fowl is cooked through.

  4. Remove the fowl from the pot and let it rest.

  5. Carve the fowl by removing the legs and wings first.

  6. Separate the merrythought and neck-bones, then slice the breast.

  7. Serve hot, garnished with parsley if desired.

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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