Roast Chicken

Original Instructions

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   Pick and draw the chicken, wash out well in two or three waters, adding a little soda to the last but one to sweeten it, if there is doubt as to its being fresh

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   Dry it well with a clean cloth, and fill the crop and body with stuffing

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   Lay it in a dripping-pan; put a pint of hot water and a piece of butter in the dripping-pan

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   Add a small tablespoonful of salt, and a small teaspoonful of pepper

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   Baste frequently, and let it roast quickly, without scorching

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   When nearly done, put a piece of butter the size of a large egg to the water in the pan

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   When it melts, baste with it, dredge a little flour over, baste again, and let it finish

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   Half an hour will roast a full grown chicken, if the fire is right

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   Stew the necks, gizzards, livers and hearts in a very little water, strain it and mix it hot with the gravy that has dripped from the fowls, and which must be first skimmed

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    Thicken it with a little browned flour, add to it the livers, hearts and gizzards chopped small

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    Or, put the giblets in the pan with the chicken and let them roast

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    Send the fowls to the table with the gravy in a boat