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 -=> Dave Drum said to Ruth Haffly <=-

 DD> Is it just me, or is beer can chicken a boy thing? Look, I grew up
 DD> with four younger brothers, and if you told them you were going to
 DD> insert a half-drunk beer into the butt of a chicken and grill it, I

The only half-drunk beer is a bad beer, unfit for flavoring
chicken as well as ingestion. SOW, I had an O'Doul's today -
seven Sunday morning, and even I obey the niceties once in a
while. I was just washing down my (now doubled dose of) Lasix,
mind you. It's been over an hour, and the stuff hasn't started
to work yet. O'Doul's isn't so bad as some of them - nicely
hopped, not too sweet, perhaps better than Budweiser. I think
the formula has been changed in my lifetime.

 DD> Not a lot of flavour is delivered by the liquid in the can. Just a bit
 DD> of a hint. I've used several different things ... beer, Co'Cola, coffee
 DD> (only once), plain water, Swanson's chicken broth, etc. I'll give the
 DD> root beer idea a try sometime in future. Also the can of beans idea.
 DD> That ought to be decent. 

How about chocolate, cinnamon, cumin, and chiles, all mixed
together with, say, a nice almond mylk.

 DD> Does your can gizmo have dual holders for cans on a diamond grid? I
 DD> have one of those as an Xmas gift from Georgia several years ago. But,
 DD> G does things like that - gives me stuff that is culinary overkill.

Heard from her lately? I wonder how she's doing.

 DD> Most times I make roast chicken (dragging this back, kicking and
 DD> screaming) to the original topic I use my Farberware indoor rotisserie
 DD> unit and let the bird ride the ferris wheel for an hour or so. That
 DD> gives me a hot meal, material for chicken sandwiches twice over and a
 DD> reasonably tasty carcass to go in the stock pot. Not to mention the
 DD> tasty, flavoured schmaltz that drips into the catch pan. Not much goes
 DD> to waste when I cook a bird.   Bv]= 

I roast a bird upside-down, sacrificing crisp skin for tender
breast meat. Then I take the flabby skin and fry it.

Vyaund de ciprysse ryalle (Chicken relish)
cat: poultry, condiment
yield: 1 batch

1 c white wine
1/2 c white sugar
1/2 c honey
1 t clove powder
1/4 c raisins
1 ts lemon zest
3 egg yolks
1 whole cooked roaster breast, minced fine

Boil the wine with the sugar until reduced by half. Pour out and
reserve 1/3 of this syrup.

Add the honey, clove, raisins, and lemon zest. Simmer 2 min.

Beat the egg yolks. Add a little syrup and beat well; add this
to the rest of the syrup. Cook over low heat until thickened.
Stir in the chicken. Pour into a serving dish and top with
the reserved syrup. Chill and serve as a relish.

supposedly as served at the coronation of
Henry IV, October 1399

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