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To Boil Fowls

A boiled fowl served with parsley or egg sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Boil Fowls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fowls for boiling as you would a turkey, without stuffing.

  2. Boil small fowls for 30 to 45 minutes and large fowls for 1 to 1.5 hours.

  3. Serve with egg sauce or pour parsley and butter over the fowls.

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

Fowls
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender and juicy as they simmer in water.

“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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