The Whole BirdA cookbook
Volume One

The Whole Bird

From the roast on Sunday to the last of the stock on Thursday.

Twelve recipes Four techniques Three tables

Contents

Twenty chapters
IThe whole bird
1Roast Chicken with Lemon and Bay1 h 40 min 2Poached Whole Chicken with Ginger and Spring Onion1 h 15 min 3Spatchcocked Chicken Under a Brick45 min
IILegs and thighs
4Braised Thighs with White Beans and Rosemary1 h 20 min 5Yoghurt-Marinated Thigh Skewers25 min + marinade 6Coq au Vin2 h 30 min + resting 7One-Pan Thighs on Potatoes55 min
IIIBreast
8Chicken Schnitzel30 min 9Poached Breast with Salsa Verde30 min
IVWings, and what is left
10Baked Wings, Three Glazes50 min + drying 11Stock from the Carcass4 h 12Chicken and Rice Soup35 min
VTechniques
13Jointing a Bird into EightKnife work 14Dry Brining, and Why It Beats WetPreparation 15Getting the Skin CrispHeat 16Resting, and What Actually HappensFinishing
VIReference
17The Cuts, and What Each Is ForAnatomy 18TemperaturesNumbers 19Roasting Times by WeightNumbers
Before you cook
20Kitchen notesWeights, oven, safety
The sequence

One bird, four days

The twelve recipes are not a list to pick from. They are a sequence, and each one leaves you holding the ingredient the next one needs. Cook it once in this order and the rest of the book explains itself.

Weights are in grams and temperatures in Celsius. Salt figures assume fine salt; flaky salt is about half as dense by volume.

Times are for a conventional oven — subtract twenty degrees for a fan — and every recipe assumes the bird has been out of the fridge for forty minutes.

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