Renaissance Time Chicken Recipes

RENAISSANCE TIME CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cut chicken into pieces and salt it.
• Mince onion.
• Add olive oil into a pot and heat. Add onion and sauté it until translucent.
• Add chicken pieces, sauté it until white and add roughly grounded peppercorn, capers, cloves, roughly minced garlic, cinnamon, rosemary, bay leaf and wine.
• Cook 30 minutes and add raisins. Salt if necessary.
• Cook for more 15 to 20 minutes. That is it.

OLD TIME CHICKEN AND BISCUITS

Steps:

• Make Biscuits:.
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450°F.
• Blend together flour and butter in a bowl with a pastry blender or your fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal with some small (roughly pea-size) butter lumps. Stir in milk with a fork just until a sticky dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto a floured surface and gently knead 7 or 8 times, (Do not overwork, or biscuits will be tough).
• Pat dough into a 9- by 6-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface, then cut into 6 (3-inch) squares.
• Arrange squares 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet and bake until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes.
• Cool to warm on baking sheet on a rack.
• Make Chicken In Gravy While Biscuits Bake:.
• Cook onion, carrot, celery, salt, and pepper in butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are softened, 8 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle flour over vegetables and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
• Stir in broth and thyme and bring to a boil, stirring, then boil over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes.
• Add half-and-half and chicken to gravy and gently simmer until chicken is heated through, about 3 minutes.
• Stir in lemon juice.
• To Serve:.
• Halve biscuits and put each bottom half in a shallow bowl.
• Spoon chicken in gravy over biscuit bottoms and cover with biscuit tops.

TURKEY AND CHICKEN LEGS WITH MEDIEVAL MARINADE

Steps:

• Put the turkey and chicken legs into a large resealable plastic bag.
• In a large bowl, combine the tomato paste, olive oil, chicken broth, Worcestershire sauce, applewood rub, apple cider vinegar, onions, and garlic, and whisk them together until blended. Pour the marinade into the resealable bag over the turkey and chicken legs. Seal the bag and put it into a large bowl. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or as long as overnight.
• Preheat 1 side of a grill over medium heat. Remove the turkey and chicken legs from the marinade, shaking off the excess, and set aside.
• Put the marinade into a small pot and cook over low heat, until reduced by half.
• Grill the chicken legs over direct heat for 5 minutes per side with the lid closed. After 10 minutes grill them over indirect heat for another 10 to 15 minutes. Grill the turkey legs for 20 to 25 minutes with the lid closed. Brush on the reduced marinade every 5 minutes until the legs are cooked through and the internal temperature reaches 175 degrees F. on an instant-read thermometer. Hold the chicken legs on the coolest part of the grill or in an oven at 200 degrees F while the turkey finishes cooking.
• Arrange the chicken and turkey on a serving platter and garnish with fresh parsley.

DUBROVNIK RENAISSANCE TIME ROASTED CAPON

Steps:

• Season capon with salt and pepper. Put smoked sausage for cooking inside the capon. Also put pancetta schnitzel, rosemary and cinnamon stick inside.
• Wash orange and pierce on several spots with fork. Close the capon back hole with the orange.
• Grease the baking pot with lard and put capon to bake on 200°C for about 110 minutes (1kg=1 hour, usually).
• Before end remove the capon from the oven, pour orange juice over capon and spread honey over to cover skin.
• Place BBQ sausages around capon and put back into oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes (to finish the sausages). Serve.

MEDIEVAL ROASTED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Combine all ingredients together to prepare the marinade. Dip the whole chicken in the marinade. Cover chicken completely with marinade. Let sit for 4 to 5 minutes. Place chicken on a sheet pan. Cook for 50 minutes uncovered, or until the chicken is cooked through and the juices run clear.