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Roast Foivl. Boiled Fowl.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Roast Foivl. Boiled Fowl.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the legs from the fowl carefully without breaking the joint.

  2. Cut the back into pieces as desired and remove the shoulders.

  3. Place the fowl on a plate and arrange the cut joints around it.

  4. Remove the skewers before serving.

  5. To carve the wings, cut at the joint and lift the pinion with a fork to separate the muscles.

  6. Cut between the leg and body to remove the legs.

  7. Remove the merrythought and neck-bones by inserting a knife and breaking them 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.

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