HOW TO COOK AN OLD HEN.

Bγ Chanticleer.

(From the N.Z. Farmer.)

A correspondent has asked us for a re pipe for cooking an old fowl so that the paturnl toughness of agemay be remedied as far as possible. We are g«ad to have an opportunity of answering the question, be Sftuse taariy people run away with the no tion that old fowls are good for nothing tut boarding-house keeper tables. The consequence'is trhafc old birds are often sold bjrfcheir owners for very much less than they are worth, for home consumption. Wβ' do not know whether'a recipq for cook ing; an old fowl so that it shall be tender on the 'table would be valued by the thrifty jjparding-houee keeper. In her case it is more an object probably to discourage than to facilitate the consumption of roast or b6ilecl fowl by greedy boarders, for wq niji-t. admit that if some land ladies are mean, plenty of bparders are greedy, and without the., gafeguard of tough beef steaks and poultry of strong muscular fibre many Hi po.or widow reduced to the Occu pation of taking in boarders for a living, would certainly be eaten out of house and home. But our present purpose is to enlighten poultry-keeping readers of TK%Farmer as to tho method of ijqoking foiwls of a,n uncertain age po that they can be eaten with pleasure and profit at home instead of being sacrificed in the city auction rooms at about a quarter of their real value as food. In first place let/us that ip is essential to success that the old fowl shall be ip fairly good condition when killed. Pre mising this much we will now give our readers the, benefit of Professor W. Mattieu Williams' experience', as 'accounted, by him- Self in/the columns of 'Knowledge, some two or three years ago. He says :— f,, 1 may, mention an experiment I have made lately. I killed a superannuated hen ~more than six years old, but otherwise fii v£ry good condition. Cooked in the or iilnary way would have been uneatably tough, instead of being thus cooked, sjie was gently stewed about four hours. I can not guarantee to the maintenance of the theoretical temperature, having suspicion of gome simmering. After this she was left in the'water until \t cooled, and on the fol lowing day was roasted in the usual manner -i.e., in a roasting oven. The result was excellent.; as tender as a full-grown chicken rpagted in th> ordinary way, and of quite equal flavour, in spite of the very good broth obtained by the preliminary stewing. This surprised me. I anticipated the softening of thetendone and ligaments, but supposed that the extraction of the juices would have •poiled the flavour. It must have diluted it, and that ao much remained was pro bibly due to the fact that an old fowl is more fully flavoured than a chicken. The usual farm-house method of cooking old hens is to stew them eimply ; the rule in' , the Midlands being one hour in the po.b for every' year Of age. The featare, ,g£ the above experiment was the supplementary roasting. When the laying season comes to an end old hens will be a drug in the market, and those among my readers who have not a hen iroost of their own will oblige theirpppltererabyprderiuga hen thatiswar raated to be four years old or upward. If he tfeaja fairly, he" will supply a specimen upon which they may repeat my experiment very cheaply. " It offers the double" economy of utilizing a nearly waste " product, and obtaining chicken* broth and roast fowl ejmpltanepusly; : , "One of the great advantages of stewing, is, that it affords a means of _ obtaining a B(jv6ury and ver^ , \yholesome dish at a min ipjumbfcost. A small piece oj: meat may fee stewed with a large quantity of vege ilWes, the Mose of the meat savouring the Sole: fosides tliis, it'costa far fuel tiian roasting." We need only add that the Professor is jerfecfcly right, and we have no doubt he pur hearty endorsement of his lecipe, which", unles3 ifc had been thus Wbatantiated by " Chanticleer " of the New Zealand Farmer, might have been received fljih a certain degree of popular doubt or Want of faith.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29 1887.

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