Name: Roast Chickens
Ingredients: 2 freshly killed chickens; burning paper or bright wood for singeing; cold water for washing; 1 tablespoon of salt (for seasoning)

Roast Chickens

Ingredients

2 freshly killed chickens
burning paper or bright wood for singeing
cold water for washing
1 tablespoon of salt (for seasoning)

Directions

Singe off the hairs by holding each chicken over burning paper or a bright wood blaze.
Remove any pin-feathers with the edge of a knife.
Wash the chickens quickly in cold water, rinsing well inside.
Cut off and save the necks; discard the giblets except for the hearts and gizzards.

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.