CARVING FOWLS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1695, 26 July 1879, Page 4

CARVING FOWLS.

It makes no difference (says a Slate paper) whether y u buy turkey, goose, duck, or chicken, the result will be the same. In other words, these remarks will be so shaped as to apply to all manner of fowls having wings. It is better to buy the fowl and pay for it, but this advice is not intended to prejudice any oue from obtaining their chickens in the usual manner. Having secured the fowl and baked and roasted it, it becomes the duty of the head of the family to prepare it for eating. Some people use fortypenny uai’s to spike the chicken down to a plana, and then do the carving with a bucksaw, but there are other and more convenient ways. Place the fowl on the kitchen table Attach a chair to the other leg, and make fast to the leg of the table, or to eyebolts driven into the wall. A third chain should n?.ss from the neck of the fowl to the opposite end of the table. The victim is then in that position commonly known as “ whore lie can’t wriggle.” If the ropes are used instead of chains, they should not bo less th ui halt an inch in diameter, and the best of hemp. It is now a question of what manner you wish the fowl to be carved. If the company is expected to dinner, it should be carved in a way to leave the fowl to the fami'y and the bones to the company. If it is for the taa.ily aloae, the wish-bone should be given to the baby, while the head of the family should take the neck, and be thankful that he has been spared to live another year. A fowl carves up like clockwork, if one only knows where to begin. As every man hath a. weak point, so hath a fowl, and there is no use spending half an hour looking for it when the balance of dinner is waiting. Some men spit on their hands bef re picking up the carving tools. They might as well spit on the fowl. If carved with a knife, but little preparation is needed. The carver should remove ouat arid vest, aud secure a firm grasp tor his feet, and muscle and faith should do the rest. There are carvers who seem to imagine that if they can get under the fowl’s wing the question is as good as fetth d- for the fowl. Such carvers have not studied anatomy, either human or animal. You might as well expect to stop a -woman’s tongue by breaking one of her fingers. Nearly all the fowls have about sixty different bones in their make-up, and you have doubtless seen many which appeared to he all bone. These sixty bones are the brickwork, as it were, for the remainder of the fowl to be erected on, and nature makes no mistake. If you strike the right bone in carving, the whole brickwork gives way in a heap, aud the carving is the work of live minutes.