Broiled Chicken - American Recipe

Broiled Chicken

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

Traditional broiled chicken — straightforward 1920s home cooking.

Ingredients

Method

1. Have — the chicken dressed and cut in half (along the back-bone) by the butcher.
2. Singe — the chicken if necessary, to remove the pinfeathers.
3. Wash — the chicken inside and out, and then wipe it dry on a piece of clean cloth.
4. Place — the two pieces on a greased broiler, with the skin side down, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
5. Put — the broiler in the lower oven and cook the chicken fifteen minutes, watching carefully to see that it does not brown too quickly.
6. Put — several bits of butter on the chicken, sprinkle again with salt and pepper, and broil five minutes longer, turning the pieces frequently.

Tags: chicken · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Only very young chickens should be cooked in this way. Such smaller birds as squab, quail, etc., may be broiled according to the same directions, but should not be cut in two before broiling.