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To Make Poultry Tender

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France

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a spoonful of vinegar
  2. Water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. If obliged to dress poultry immediately after killing, to make it tender, do as follows : Steep it in boiling water, and feather it in the hot water;
  2. or before you kill the poultry, be it turkey or goose^ make it swallow a spoonful of vinegar.
  3. These methods will make the poultry as tender as if killed some days previous to being dressed.
  4. To make meat tender, beat it with a wooden rolling-pin before you dress it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Rolling pin