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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a glass of port wine
  2. Cut
  3. Mustard

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Separate the apron, and pour a glass of port wine into the body and a little ready-mixed mustard, then cut the whole breast in long slices, but remove them only as you help them ;
  2. separate the leg from the body by putting the fork into the small end of the bone, pressing it to the body, and having passed the knife, turn the leg back.
  3. To take off the wing, put the fork into the small end of the pinion, and press it close to the body;
  4. then put in the knife, and divide the joint down.
  5. Practice alone can render persons expert at this ;
  6. when you have thus taken off* the leg and wing on one side, do the same by the other, if it be necessary, which will not be the case unless the company is large : by the wing there are two side bones, which may be taken off, as may the back and lower side bones, but the breast and the thighs, divided from the drum-sticks, afford the finest and most delicate pieces.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Spatula
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Credit

From The housewife's directory (1825), printed page 55, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21504763

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.