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A LITTLE bride next door came in to ask how long she should roast a four and a half pound chicken which "hubby had ordered home for a company dinner that night." She wanted that chicken just right, and I was looking for victims both chickens to roast and folks to eat them, so I claimed this an opportunity not to be lightly passed by, and together we set to on Mister Chickie. - We first singed off the remains of his feathered coat over the gas flame, holding neck and wings in one hand and legs in the other, for just a moment or two, being careful not to let the flame itself touch and char the bird. As the crop had been removed it was not necessary, as otherwise, Experiments Tried on Friends to cut the slit in the skin at the back of the neck and pull out the gullet, crop, and windpipe. I am always glad when the butcher has completed his end of the job by removing all, instead of just part, of these internal structures, replacing the gizzard, liver, and heart in the cavity when he delivers the chicken. Our butcher, however, had failed to remove heart, lungs, and kidneys from the body of the fowl, so I had to insert my hand and with a slow pressing and pulling motion of my fingers along the backbone work under the soft structures and remove them all.

The heart we placed with the gizzard and liver to be cooked for the giblet gravy, throwing away the rest.