This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Cover the breast of the fowl or chicken with butter or dripping, or better still, tie a piece of fat bacon over it. Place in bag, and set on grid in a hot oven.
Allow twenty-five minutes for a small spring chicken; thirty-five minutes for a large fowl; forty-five to fifty minutes (according to size) for stuffed poultry or game in a moderate oven.
 
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