This section is from the book "How To Cook Well", by J. Rosalie Benton. Also available from Amazon: How To Cook Well.
(A Canadian Receipt.)
Choose a young fowl. Fill the inside with oysters. Put it in a jar or tin pail without water and cover tight. Put the jar in a large pot of boiling water, and boil steadily for an hour and a half. Then lay the fowl on a hot platter. Make a white sauce of the juice which remains from the chicken and oysters, by adding to it while boiling a little cream or milk, in which one tablespoonful of flour has been rubbed smooth. Season with salt and pepper, and add a few whole oysters. When these "ruffle" pour the sauce over the chicken.
This is very delicious, the meat being white and tender, and all the flavor preserved.
 
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