Recipe - Roast Chicken In Clay Baker

4 pound Roasting chicken; up to 5
Salt and pepper; (to taste)
Poultry seasoning
3 Whole cloves
1 small Onion; peeled
One half cup Chopped celery; with leaves
One fourth cup Chopped parsley
One fourth cup Chopped onion
1 lg Carrot; chopped
3 Peppercorns
1 Leek; chopped
1 Bay leaf
Salt and pepper; (to taste)
One fourth cup Light cream
2 teaspoon Cornstarch

Wash chicken, drain well and dry. Sprinkle inside of chicken generously
with salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning. Stick cloves into onion and place
in crop (neck) of chicken. Skewer neck flap to back.

Put celery, parsley, chopped onion, carrot, leek, peppercorns, and bay leaf
in the bottom of the clay baker. Lay the chicken on top, sprinkle with salt
and pepper.

Cover and put in cold oven. Set oven to 400 F. and roast for 1 One half hours or
until tender. Lift chicken out of pot and drain liquid carefully into a
small saucepan. Add cream, cold water and cornstarch to liquid and heat
gently, stirring, until thickened.

Return chicken to baker and place, uncovered in oven for another 10 minutes
to crisp.

Posted to KitMailbox Digest by J Pellegrino gigimfg@ix.netcom.com on May
09, 1998