Recipe - Roast Chicken Stuffed Wchestnut Mushroo

12 Dried black mushrooms
One half pound Chestnuts
1 (45 pound) chicken
1 Onion
2 tablespoon Soy sauce
One half teaspoon Salt
1 ds Pepper
1 tablespoon Sherry
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 tablespoon Peanut oil
Salt and pepper

1. Soak dried mushrooms. Shell chestnuts.

2. Wipe chicken with a damp cloth. Then dry thoroughly with paper toweling;
or hang up to dry in a cool, airy place 1 to 2 hours.

3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mince onion, mushrooms and chestnuts; then
mix well with soy sauce, salt and pepper. Stuff chicken with mixture; then
sew up securely or skewer.

4. Combine sherry with remaining soy sauce and rub over bird. Rub in oil.
Sprinkle lightly with remaining salt and pepper; then truss.

5. Place on a rack over a drip pan containing several inches of water.
Roast 20 minutes, basting frequently with drippings.

6. Reduce heat to 325 degrees and roast 40 minutes more, basting
frequently. (Replenish water in drip pan as it evaporates.) VARIATION: For
the chicken, substitute turkey.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.