Vincent Price Chicken Pyramide Volaille Pyramide Recipes

VINCENT PRICE FRIDAY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Take the capon or chicken and loosen the skin by sliding your hand under the skin around the thighs and breast meat, tearing the connective tissue from the upper layer.
• Finely grate the onion using a box grater or food processor- make sure you don't lose the liquid from the onion; set aside.
• Cut the crusts from the bread; discard crusts (or reserve for some other dish).
• Sprinkle the bread with the water and let it sit for 3 minutes; squeeze the excess water from the slices, and crumble or roughly chop into pieces.
• To make the stuffing, thoroughly combine the moistened bread with the parsley, eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, thyme or sage, and grated onion (together with the onion juice).
• Insert the stuffing between the loosened skin and meat of the capon: over the breast and into the thighs.
• Take a shallow roasting pan with a rack and place the capon breast-up on the rack.
• Rub the capon with the softened butter, then sprinkle with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• Roast at 375° for 45 minutes, basting frequently with the pan juices.
• Reduce the temperature to 350° and roast for an additional 1 hour, basting every 20 minutes, then carefully turn the capon over onto the breast and cook for another 15 minutes to brown the meat on the back.
• Remove from oven and let chicken rest for 5 minutes then carve and serve hot, or also is good cold the next day.
• Source: "A Treasury of Great Recipes" posted by Michael in Phoenix at Gail's Recipe Swap.

VINCENT PRICE'S CHICKEN SWEET AND HOT

Steps:

• Combine all of the above ingredients, except chicken, in a pan.
• Heat gently, stirring until jelly is blended and sauce is smooth (it doesn't really thicken a lot, just a little bit).
• Cool.
• Pour sauce over 1 quartered chicken and marinate for 2 or 3 hours (I had a change of plans the day I prepared the marinade; mine marinated overnight).
• Cover and cook in preheated moderate oven (I used 350 degrees F for the first 40 minutes, then raised it to 375 degrees F).
• Uncover, increase oven temperature to hot (I raised it to 425 degrees F) and baste frequently until chicken is an even dark brown.
• (Before I put the chicken in at the higher temperature, I used a large spoon to take out some of the marinade/basting sauce; it seemed to make a lot to me-- I left just enough in the dish to use for basting, but not so little that it would burn at the high) Serve with rice.