To Boil a Chicken. Time—2 hours.
1 fowl, ½ lemon, mace; pepper and salt to taste.
Boil enough water to well cover the fowl, add salt, pepper and mace. Rub the fowl with the lemon-juice, put it into the saucepan. Boil gently 1½ hour. Serve with lemon sauce (see [page 39]), and if liked, garnish with slices of tongue, smoked beef, or worsht.