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Roast Chicken

A whole chicken roasted after stuffing and trussing, cooked for about an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Roast Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chickens by cleaning and removing any unwanted parts.

  2. Stuff the chickens with your chosen stuffing.

  3. Truss the chickens securely.

Roast

  1. Roast in a tin kitchen for 1 hour and 15 minutes or in an oven at 350°F (175°C) 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

Chickens
The main protein, which cooks through and browns as it roasts.
Stuffing
Fills the cavity and adds flavour to the bird as it roasts.

The step that matters

Truss the chickens securely. Tying the legs and wings close to the body keeps the bird compact, so it cooks more evenly and the thighs and breast finish at closer to the same time.

“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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