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Roasted Fowls

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Roasted Fowls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the gills from the fowl and loosen the insides carefully.

  2. Wipe the inside of the bird with a damp cloth.

  3. Truss the bird by pressing down the breastbone and breaking the legs at the first joint.

  4. Wash and dry the liver, and place it inside the bird.

  5. Fold the neck skin over the back and tuck the wing tips under.

  6. Push the legs close to the sides and sew them with twine, tying securely at the knees.

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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